Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF291

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Ices Corporation (doing business as Ices Group) with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance through December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract encompasses work across all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, as well as air, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The procurement was conducted as full and open competition with no set-aside designations, utilizing pricing mechanisms that include firm fixed price structures. An initial delivery order valued at five hundred dollars was awarded on December 29, 2025, with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama.

Ices Corporation, a professional engineering and information technology services company specializing in information systems, cybersecurity, data science, and satellite systems, will support the government's defense objectives through the delivery of systems engineering, disruptive technologies, and modernization capabilities under this IDIQ vehicle. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders issued under the SHIELD IDIQ may utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and may require different security clearance levels and facility certifications. This contracting mechanism is designed to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a flexible, scalable framework for the nation's multi-layered defense requirements over the 10-year period of performance.