Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF330

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Key Concepts Knowledgebase LLC (UEI: HDE4ZMQMKZY9) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract represents a 10-year, full and open competition procurement vehicle with no set-asides, structured to provide comprehensive multi-domain defense capabilities. The contract is funded by the Missile Defense Agency, a Defense Department entity, and is designed to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes. The initial delivery order, valued at $500 under a Firm Fixed Price arrangement, was issued on December 29, 2025, with performance in Huntsville, Alabama.

The SHIELD contract encompasses the full spectrum of advanced defense system development and deployment, including research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and disruptive technology integration. The procurement aims to acquire 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 leverages emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish continuous, layered protection. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types at different classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances, and the vehicle is structured to enable rapid order issuance across multiple Department of Defense entities supporting national defense objectives.