Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF359

Lynch Consultants, LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. The contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, was awarded under full and open competition with no set-asides, positioning Lynch Consultants among multiple awardees eligible to compete for task orders. The procurement utilizes various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and is structured to support both classified and unclassified defense programs requiring appropriate facility clearances.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract scope encompasses advanced multi-domain defense system capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work areas include research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats across all phases of flight. The contract leverages disruptive technologies and advanced capabilities including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, reflecting the Missile Defense Agency's commitment to comprehensive, layered defense modernization. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued on an as-needed basis, enabling flexible resource allocation across multiple security domains and classification levels over the 10-year performance period.