Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE999

Archarithms Inc. (doing business as Arcarithm), an SBA-certified HUBZone small business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program on December 29, 2025. The contract is funded by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), a defense agency within the Department of Defense, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The SHIELD IDIQ represents a comprehensive, 10-year enterprise-wide contracting vehicle utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside designations, designed to enable rapid task and delivery order issuance across multiple contracting mechanisms and security classification levels.

Under the SHIELD contract, Archarithms will provide materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support multi-domain defense system development, including research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related capabilities. The procurement scope encompasses detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple NAICS codes utilizing various contract types, with work potentially spanning both classified and unclassified programs and leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support national defense objectives and allied protection requirements.