Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF012

Caes Mission Systems LLC, doing business as Ultra Electronics Herley, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program administered by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The contract has a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, utilizing full and open competition with no set-asides. Under this IDIQ vehicle, the contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the government's multi-domain defense objectives. Individual task and delivery orders issued under this contract will encompass research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts across both classified and unclassified programs.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract supports the Department of Defense's strategic imperative to develop and deliver an advanced, integrated defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The procurement encompasses work related to ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile defense, as well as other advanced aerial threats, leveraging emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. As a child entity specializing in sophisticated electronic components and subsystems for defense and aerospace applications, Caes Mission Systems LLC brings established expertise in manufacturing critical electronic assemblies and maintaining strategic partnerships with major defense contractors. The contract vehicle is structured to enable rapid issuance of task orders at varying classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances, and represents a significant long-term investment in homeland defense capabilities across multiple security domains and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.