Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF343

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Meroxa, Inc. (UEI: QYN3ZNG91XG4) for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, effective January 21, 2026, through December 28, 2035. The contract ceiling is valued at $151 billion and carries no set-aside designations, reflecting full and open competition among all qualifying contractors. Meroxa, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Oakland, California, will compete alongside other prime contractors to deliver comprehensive defense capabilities supporting the nation's multi-layered missile defense architecture. The contract utilizes full and open competition under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii), allowing all responsible offerors with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing to receive awards.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains affecting the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. Work scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple NAICS codes. Individual task and delivery orders will employ various contract types and may be classified at different security levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract structure leverages emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to address continuous threats from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles as well as other advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight. Individual task orders will define specific performance requirements, with Meroxa expected to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to contract performance.