Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF280

Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. (doing business as Alatec Inc.), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, 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 a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract is structured to procure 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, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract encompasses a broad scope of work including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The solicitation was issued under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, and awards were made to all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing.

Under this contract vehicle, the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities are positioned to rapidly issue delivery orders across multiple NAICS codes and classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. An initial delivery order was awarded on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed price of five hundred dollars and identical performance completion date of December 28, 2035, with place of performance designated as Huntsville, Alabama. The SHIELD contract represents a comprehensive, long-term contracting solution designed to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, enabling flexible task order issuance to support the nation's multi-layered homeland defense requirements and national defense objectives over the ten-year period of performance.