Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF057

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Caribou Thunder, LLC, a SBA Certified Women-Owned Small Business and HUBZone Firm, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support the nation's layered defense capabilities. The contract was awarded on December 29, 2025, under full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing multiple qualified contractors to receive task orders. Caribou Thunder, as a prime contractor under this IDIQ structure, will draw upon its expertise in engineering services, cybersecurity, systems engineering, and technical support for national security programs to support various defense initiatives.

Under the SHIELD contract, Caribou Thunder will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to deliver advanced multi-domain defense solutions encompassing research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts. The contract scope addresses detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of threats to U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains, covering all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The initial task order, valued at five hundred dollars and designated as a Firm Fixed Price delivery order, was placed on December 29, 2025, with performance occurring in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide flexible, rapid-response ordering capabilities for multiple DoD entities.