Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF218

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, effective December 29, 2025, through December 28, 2035. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards. The procurement encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts supporting a multi-domain defense system. The SHIELD IDIQ is structured to procure advanced capabilities for detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contract supports work across multiple classification levels and security domains, leveraging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to address threats from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all phases of flight.

The initial delivery order, awarded concurrently on December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $500 and is classified as a Firm Fixed Price delivery order with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The solicitation was posted as a pre-solicitation notice on May 21, 2025, with a proposal due date of September 15, 2025, and the final Request for Proposal was anticipated for release in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025. All potential offerors were required to register in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) to be eligible for contract award. Individual task and delivery orders under the IDIQ structure will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, with the contract vehicle designed to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a single flexible contracting mechanism supporting both classified and unclassified programs.