Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF246

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Hadron Industries, Inc., a veteran-owned small business based in Concord, New Hampshire, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance through December 28, 2035. The contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), procures an advanced multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

An initial delivery order under the SHIELD IDIQ, designated the SHIELD Initial Order with a firm fixed price ceiling of $500, was awarded to Hadron Industries on December 29, 2025, with performance to be completed at the contractor's facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract structure allows the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders across multiple contract types and NAICS codes to support national defense objectives through continuous, layered protection capabilities against evolving threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. Hadron Industries' established expertise in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems and innovative research and development services positions the contractor to support the comprehensive multi-year development and implementation requirements of this critical defense initiative.