Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF256

High Side Technology, Inc., a South Carolina-based systems engineering and technical services firm, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a $151 billion ceiling value with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance consisting of a base ordering period and optional ordering periods. This full and open competition award includes no set-aside designations and utilizes multiple contract types across various NAICS codes, enabling the government to issue individual task and delivery orders for classified and unclassified work at different security classification levels. The contractor is responsible for providing all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the contract requirements in accordance with task order terms.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles targeting the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and systems integration efforts leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. As a multiple award IDIQ vehicle, the contract was structured to allow the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue flexible orders for homeland and theater defense capabilities, with all task orders subject to fair and reasonable pricing determinations and technical acceptability reviews conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii) competition standards.