Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF099

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Ciyis LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business and 8(a) Program Participant, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance through December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract represents a comprehensive, government-wide acquisition vehicle designed to procure advanced multi-domain defense systems and associated capabilities for detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, enabling all qualifying contractors to compete for multiple task orders across diverse work areas including research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts. Individual task and delivery orders will span multiple classification levels and security domains, incorporating advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

Under this IDIQ structure, Ciyis LLC will compete for task orders supporting the Missile Defense Agency's mission to provide continuous, layered protection against advanced threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance of individual orders issued under the contract. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, with work potentially requiring various facility clearances and encompassing multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes. This ten-year ordering period positions the SHIELD contract as a strategic long-term investment mechanism enabling rapid issuance of task orders to support national defense objectives and modernization initiatives across the missile defense enterprise.