Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF293

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract, awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, represents a comprehensive ten-year national defense procurement vehicle with a ceiling value of $151 billion. Ierus Technologies Inc., a small business located in Huntsville, Alabama specializing in advanced electro-optics/infrared and electromagnetic technologies, was selected as one of multiple awardees under full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, enabling the government to rapidly issue task and delivery orders across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and security domains. As the prime contractor, Ierus Technologies will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to perform obligations across a diverse range of work activities.

The SHIELD contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract vehicle leverages emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide layered protection capabilities. Individual task orders will utilize various contract types and may be performed at multiple classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances. This procurement mechanism positions the Missile Defense Agency to coordinate comprehensive, scalable defense solutions across the Department of Defense enterprise through a single flexible contracting instrument.