Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE965

Assured Space Access Technologies Inc., a veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a performance period extending through December 28, 2035, and does not utilize any small business set-asides. As a prime contractor under this vehicle, Assured Space Access Technologies will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the MDA's multi-domain defense objectives. The company, which specializes in aerospace and defense engineering with particular expertise in space domain awareness and satellite tracking, will contribute to the government's broader defense enterprise alongside other qualified awardees selected through full and open competition.

The SHIELD IDIQ procurement is designed to support comprehensive national defense capabilities across research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The underlying solicitation, posted as a pre-solicitation notice on May 21, 2025, reflects the MDA's intent to establish a flexible, long-term contracting mechanism to procure an advanced multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and classification levels, supporting both classified and unclassified programs that leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Awards were made to all responsible offerors submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii).