Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF139

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Diakon Solutions LLC, effective December 29, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract, valued at $151 billion over its 10-year performance period, represents a full and open competition procurement with no set-asides, allowing all qualifying contractors to compete for multiple awards under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contracting vehicle. Diakon Solutions LLC, a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation registered in the System for Award Management since 2006 and headquartered in Avalon, New Jersey, will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support the contract's requirements. The contractor is a small business with extensive experience delivering technical and research support services, previously supporting the Federal Aviation Administration on advanced engineering initiatives.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The scope of work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts to counter ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all phases of flight. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple NAICS codes utilizing various contract types, with work potentially conducted at different security classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a comprehensive, layered defense solution aligned with national defense objectives.