Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF053

Brainstorm Technologies LLC, a small disadvantaged and veteran-owned business based in Slidell, Louisiana, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery contract valued at $151 billion by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Master IDIQ program. The contract runs through December 28, 2035, and operates as a full and open competition vehicle with no set-asides, enabling the government to issue task orders for research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts supporting national homeland and missile defense objectives. The contract encompasses work across multiple NAICS codes and security classification levels, allowing the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly procure advanced defense capabilities through individual task and delivery orders structured at various contract types and pricing mechanisms.

The SHIELD IDIQ solicitation was posted as a pre-solicitation notice on May 21, 2025, with the draft released in late July 2025 and final release anticipated in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025. The procurement is designed to support the development and deployment of multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The underlying requirement leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish continuous, layered protection across the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The government structured the SHIELD IDIQ to award to all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing, thereby establishing a comprehensive enterprise contracting platform for the nation's multi-layered defense requirements.