Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF179

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Energetics Technology Center, Inc. on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle intended to support national defense objectives through advanced detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization capabilities against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task orders across multiple contract types, pricing mechanisms, and classification levels to support both classified and unclassified programs.

The procurement encompasses a broad spectrum of work areas including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes. Energetics Technology Center, Inc., an independent nonprofit organization based in Indian Head, Maryland with extensive experience in advanced research and technological development for naval and defense agencies, is positioned to provide engineering services, data analytics, and technology development solutions under this vehicle. The initial task order issued on December 29, 2025, designated as the SHIELD Initial Order with a firm fixed price of $500, has a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama and extends through the contract completion date, establishing the foundational ordering mechanism for subsequent task orders under this strategic defense contracting instrument.