Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE959

Arion Systems Inc. was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, as part of the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) master contract vehicle. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, and utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides. Under this vehicle, Arion Systems is obligated to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support MDA's multi-domain defense objectives. The contract encompasses a broad range of capabilities including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related services across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract is structured to procure an advanced, integrated defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats targeting the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and strategic partners. Work will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task and delivery orders issued at varying classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The underlying solicitation, posted on May 21, 2025, with responses due September 15, 2025, was structured under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii) to award all responsible, technically acceptable offerors demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing, positioning this contract as a comprehensive, long-term procurement mechanism to support the nation's layered homeland and force protection defense architecture.