Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF257

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Heptagon Information Technology LLC on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This is a full and open competition award with no set-asides, structured to provide a flexible contracting vehicle for procuring an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, supports national defense objectives by providing continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks.

Work areas encompassed under the contract span research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The initial delivery order, issued on December 29, 2025, was awarded with a firm fixed price ceiling of $500 and a performance location in Huntsville, Alabama, serving as the baseline for subsequent task orders. Given Heptagon Information Technology's established expertise in IT solutions, cybersecurity, network engineering, and IT support demonstrated through prior federal contracting experience, the contractor is positioned to execute work requiring advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, with individual task and delivery orders potentially issued across multiple NAICS codes and classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances for performance.