Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF381

Network Runners Inc., an SBA-certified 8(a) Program Participant and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business headquartered in Leesburg, 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, employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations, enabling all qualifying contractors to compete for multiple awards. The Missile Defense Agency intends to award to all responsible offerors submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing, positioning this vehicle as a comprehensive enterprise-wide contracting mechanism to support rapid task order issuance across the Department of Defense.

The SHIELD IDIQ procurement encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts for an advanced multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats. The contract will support national defense objectives by providing continuous, layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats across all phases of flight, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. An initial task order valued at $500 for SHIELD work with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama was awarded to Network Runners Inc. on December 29, 2025, under firm fixed price terms. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, with individual task and delivery orders potentially issued at varying classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.