Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF166

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract represents a $151 billion, 10-year comprehensive defense procurement vehicle awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025. The contract is structured as a multiple award mechanism utilizing full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue task and delivery orders for advanced multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Elma Electronic Incorporated, a Fremont, California-based foreign-owned manufacturer of ruggedized electronic components and embedded computing solutions, was selected as one of the awardees under this IDIQ vehicle. The contract period extends through December 28, 2035, with individual task and delivery orders to be issued across multiple NAICS codes at varying classification levels.

The scope of work under the SHIELD IDIQ encompasses research and development, advanced prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts supporting multi-layered defense against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all flight phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to fulfill national defense objectives. Contractors must provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance requirements. As an established supplier of tactical network processors, rugged chassis, power supplies, single board computers, and specialized electronic systems to defense and aerospace sectors, Elma Electronic is positioned to support the contract's hardware and systems integration requirements through its existing capabilities and relationships with major defense prime contractors.