Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF041

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract, awarded to Brown Technologies Incorporated (BTI) on December 29, 2025, represents a $151 billion, ten-year defense procurement vehicle administered by the Missile Defense Agency. This non-competitive, full and open solicitation with no small business set-aside was structured under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii) to award to all qualifying responsible offerors submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing. The contract's period of performance extends through December 28, 2035, with performance conducted in Huntsville, Alabama. As an economically disadvantaged women-owned small business certified under the 8(a) Program and HUBZone designations, BTI was selected as one of multiple awardees to support the nation's multi-layered homeland defense strategy.

The contract scope encompasses comprehensive research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, and production activities supporting advanced, multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile flight. Work areas include disruptive technologies development, weapon design, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The initial delivery order issued to BTI on December 29, 2025, valued at $500 on a firm fixed price basis, represents the first task order under this indefinite delivery vehicle, with subsequent orders to be issued as required to support ongoing Missile Defense Agency operations and multi-domain threat mitigation requirements.