Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF211

Epitome Research and Innovations Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, funded by the Missile Defense Agency. The contract, awarded on December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. Under this IDIQ vehicle, the contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the performance of task orders issued in accordance with contract terms. The procurement was conducted as a full and open competition with no set-aside designations, and the contract is structured to accommodate both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract aims 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 across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat vectors. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple phases of flight including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Individual task orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and may utilize various contract types at different security classification levels. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures as part of the Missile Defense Agency's long-term investment in comprehensive, multi-layered homeland defense capabilities.