Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF369

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Mattermost Federal, Inc. (UEI: RN3UJ3CK94Q3) on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This defense-focused contract, valued at $151 billion with a performance period extending through December 28, 2035, requires the contractor to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support the government's multi-domain defense objectives. The contract was awarded without set-asides under full and open competition, with the government intending to award to all qualifying offerors meeting responsibility and technical acceptability criteria with fair and reasonable pricing. The solicitation was originally posted as a pre-solicitation notice on May 21, 2025, with a proposal due date of September 15, 2025, and a draft solicitation released in late July 2025.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system 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 scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple NAICS codes and classification levels. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types, with the resultant contract issuing orders at different security classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances, positioning this vehicle as a comprehensive contracting solution for the nation's layered missile defense and homeland protection requirements.