Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF196

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Ennoble First Incorporated (UEI: C1DLZXCH4L86) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract vehicle, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), represents full and open competition with no set-aside designations, enabling the government to issue multiple task orders for advanced multi-domain defense system capabilities. The contract encompasses a comprehensive range of defense-related activities including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. These efforts are directed toward developing and delivering systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ contract structure, Ennoble First Incorporated, a Small Business Administration-certified 8(a) firm specializing in technology engineering services, will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support defense modernization initiatives. The initial delivery order issued December 29, 2025, designated as the SHIELD Initial Order, is valued at five hundred dollars and is firm fixed price, with place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract vehicle is designed to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This procurement structure enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes while accommodating varying facility clearance requirements.