Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE990

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract was awarded to Athenix Cyber & Sigint Solutions, LLC (UEI: D7PFP7J9C5G4) on December 29, 2025, by the Missile Defense Agency, a defense-focused federal agency. This $151 billion contract represents a 10-year period of performance through December 28, 2035, and was competitively awarded without set-aside restrictions to all qualifying offerors submitting technically acceptable and fairly priced proposals. The contract utilizes full and open competition, permitting multiple contractors to receive awards under the IDIQ structure, with individual task and delivery orders to be issued across various contract types and multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes at both classified and unclassified performance levels.

Under this contract vehicle, the prime contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support a comprehensive multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contracted scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains, including protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all phases of flight. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish layered protection capabilities supporting both classified and unclassified defense programs requiring appropriate security facility clearances.