Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF007

Black Cape, Inc., a veteran-owned small business, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on January 21, 2026, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract 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. Work will be performed with full and open competition among all qualifying contractors, with no set-aside designations applied. The initial delivery order issued to Black Cape on January 21, 2026, designated as the SHIELD Initial Order, is valued at $500 and is firm fixed-price, with a place of performance at Huntsville, Alabama, extending through December 28, 2035.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract represents a comprehensive, long-term investment in national defense capabilities, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and utilizes various contract types across multiple NAICS codes, with individual task and delivery orders potentially requiring different facility clearances depending on classification levels. Under the contract structure, all qualifying responsible sources that submit technically acceptable proposals demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing are eligible for award, enabling the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under this flexible contracting vehicle. Black Cape's selection as a multiple-award contractor positions the company to compete for and execute task orders supporting the nation's critical multi-layered defense requirements throughout the ten-year period of performance.