Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE974

Athena Technology Group, Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and HUBZone-certified firm based in Herndon, Virginia, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract on December 29, 2025, by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035, carries no set-asides and was awarded under full and open competition. The contract requires Athena Technology Group to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support MDA's multi-domain defense objectives, with work anticipated to encompass research and development, systems engineering, prototyping, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across classified and unclassified programs.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract represents a comprehensive, long-term investment in homeland defense capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats against the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The procurement will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support continuous, layered protection across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes utilizing various contract types at different security classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances. This contract vehicle positions the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a flexible contracting mechanism capable of supporting both near-term and long-term defense modernization initiatives across the enterprise.