Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE957

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, represents a comprehensive, long-term defense procurement vehicle with a ceiling value of $151 billion over a 10-year period of performance through December 28, 2035. This multiple award IDIQ contract uses full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors meeting responsibility and technical acceptability standards to compete for task orders. The contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains throughout all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks.

Performance under SHIELD encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and sustainment efforts. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes utilizing various contract types, with work potentially classified at different security levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. As an enterprise-wide contracting mechanism, SHIELD enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a single flexible contract structure, positioning it as a comprehensive solution for the nation's multi-layered homeland defense requirements.