Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF036

C3.Ai, Inc. has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. The contract was awarded on December 29, 2025, without set-aside restrictions, allowing full and open competition. Under this vehicle, C3.Ai will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the government's procurement of advanced, multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract supports continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks.

The SHIELD IDIQ is structured to facilitate task order issuance across multiple work areas including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and will support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains. Given C3.Ai's established expertise in enterprise artificial intelligence and Internet of Things solutions, the contractor is positioned to provide AI-powered software platforms, machine learning development services, data management and analytics capabilities, and specialized technical support required to advance the Missile Defense Agency's multi-layered defense objectives. The contract vehicle is designed to leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support the nation's long-term homeland defense investment strategy.