Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF350

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Maxar Mission Solutions Inc. (doing business as Geoeye) valued at $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, was awarded on December 29, 2025, through full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the contract's scope, which encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across a 10-year period of performance consisting of a base ordering period and optional ordering periods.

The SHIELD IDIQ procurement represents a strategic investment in advanced, multi-domain defense capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract supports comprehensive protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. Work areas leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task and delivery orders utilizing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, with resultant orders potentially issued at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. Maxar's award positions the company as a key contributor to MDA's long-term multi-layered defense strategy through this flexible contracting mechanism enabling rapid task order issuance across the federal government.