Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF146

Dridam Consulting LLC (UEI: QQUFJJ4ZFSN1) was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with an estimated ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a comprehensive, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple domains including air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The procurement was conducted as a full and open competition with no set-aside designations, utilizing FAR 15.304(c)(1)(ii) authority to award to all qualifying responsible sources submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing. No specific set-asides were applied, and the contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified work requiring facility clearances at various security levels.

The initial task order issued under this contract, the SHIELD Initial Order with a ceiling value of $500 and a firm fixed price pricing structure, was awarded on the same date with performance at Huntsville, Alabama. The contract vehicle is designed to enable rapid issuance of multiple delivery orders across various contract types and multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This indefinite delivery structure positions the SHIELD IDIQ as a flexible, enterprise-wide contracting mechanism allowing the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to efficiently procure integrated, multi-layered defense capabilities while maintaining the operational agility required to respond to evolving national security threats over the extended 10-year performance period.