Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF054

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Busek Co., Inc. and other qualifying contractors on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This non-set-aside contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and extends through December 28, 2035, supporting a 10-year period of performance. The contract vehicle enables MDA to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts addressing ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, as well as advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight.

Busek Co., Inc., a small business manufacturer of spacecraft propulsion systems headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, was selected as a prime contractor under the SHIELD IDIQ structure, which utilizes full and open competition allowing multiple awards to all qualifying, responsible offerors demonstrating technically acceptable proposals and fair pricing. The initial task order issued under this vehicle, designated the SHIELD Initial Order with a ceiling value of $500 and a firm fixed price contract type, was awarded on December 29, 2025, with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The SHIELD contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a comprehensive, long-term contracting solution for national multi-layered defense requirements.