Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF324

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, awarded to Kaiva Arch LLC on December 29, 2025, represents a $151 billion defense procurement vehicle with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. Funded by the Missile Defense Agency, this contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and is structured to support multiple awardees issuing task and delivery orders across classified and unclassified programs. The contract vehicle is designed to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts targeting threats including ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, cruise missiles, and advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight.

The initial task order awarded to Kaiva Arch LLC carries a ceiling value of $500 and is classified as a Delivery Order with Firm Fixed Price contract type, with performance location designated as Huntsville, Alabama. The SHIELD IDIQ leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task and delivery orders potentially issued at varying classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. This enterprise-wide contracting mechanism is structured to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a single flexible contract vehicle, positioning the SHIELD program as a comprehensive long-term investment in multi-layered homeland defense capabilities and operational flexibility across the defense industrial base.