Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF176

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract, awarded December 29, 2025, by the Missile Defense Agency to FGS, LLC, establishes a comprehensive contracting vehicle with a ceiling value of $151 billion over a ten-year performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition award, utilizing no set-aside designations, enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities 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. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains, addressing ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats as well as other advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and pricing mechanisms across multiple NAICS codes, with initial performance activities centered in Huntsville, Alabama. FGS, LLC, a Maryland-based contractor specializing in intelligence, engineering, and technology services to federal defense and intelligence agencies, was selected as a prime contractor under this vehicle. The contract represents a significant long-term strategic investment in establishing a flexible, enterprise-wide contracting mechanism to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements and modernization objectives.