Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF253

Gritter - Francona, Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract vehicle supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a comprehensive multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and allows the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task orders under a flexible contracting mechanism spanning a 10-year period of performance. Work areas encompassed by this IDV include research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and security classification levels.

An initial delivery order for the SHIELD program was issued to Gritter - Francona, Inc. on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed price of five hundred dollars and performance location in Huntsville, Alabama. Individual task and delivery orders issued under this IDIQ will utilize various contract types and leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support both classified and unclassified programs. The contract structure enables rapid response to evolving defense requirements while consolidating procurement activities across multiple Department of Defense entities under a single, enterprise-wide contracting vehicle designed to address the nation's multi-layered homeland defense capabilities.