Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF103

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Clear Ridge Defense, LLC, effective December 29, 2025, through December 28, 2035, with a ceiling value of $151 billion. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract was awarded under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, making it accessible to all qualified contractors meeting responsibility and technical acceptability criteria. The contract vehicle is designed 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 friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains.

The scope of work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple classification levels. Clear Ridge Defense, a Baltimore-based small business specializing in cybersecurity, network operations, intelligence analysis, and professional services, will deliver capabilities leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders under this IDIQ will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and require appropriate facility clearances for both classified and unclassified programs, positioning the SHIELD contract as a comprehensive contracting solution for the nation's layered defense requirements over the 10-year period of performance.