Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF183

Elta North America Inc. was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance through December 28, 2035. This contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) initiative, 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 all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. 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. The contract was awarded under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing multiple qualified contractors to compete for task orders issued under the IDIQ structure.

The initial delivery order issued under this IDIQ contract, valued at $500 and awarded on December 29, 2025, is designated for the SHIELD Initial Order with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, and is priced on a firm fixed-price basis. Individual task and delivery orders under the IDIQ will utilize various contract types and may span multiple NAICS codes, with work potentially conducted at classified and unclassified security levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide a comprehensive contracting solution supporting the nation's multi-layered defense requirements and MDA's long-term strategic objectives in integrated air and missile defense capabilities.