Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF229

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Frontera Space Inc. on January 21, 2026, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract, valued at $151 billion with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, represents a comprehensive multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support the nation's layered defense architecture. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue delivery orders for advanced defense systems and capabilities. Frontera Space Inc., operating as a child entity under its Unique Entity Identifier DW55KFZ23EN4, will serve as prime contractor for this enterprise-wide contracting mechanism.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ, the contractor shall perform work encompassing research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, and test and evaluation for advanced multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The contract scope includes disruptive technologies, cybersecurity initiatives, and modernization efforts leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support both classified and unclassified programs at multiple security classification levels. The initial delivery order, valued at five hundred dollars on a firm fixed price basis, was awarded simultaneously with the IDIQ contract, with performance located in Huntsville, Alabama. The flexible structure enables the government to issue multiple task orders across varying contract types and NAICS codes to support homeland defense, deployed forces, and allied defense objectives throughout the ten-year ordering period.