Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF382

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Noblis ESI, LLC with a ceiling value of $151 billion over a ten-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract, awarded on December 29, 2025, with no set-aside designation, is structured to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple threat domains including air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats spanning all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles.

The initial task order issued on December 29, 2025, designated as the SHIELD Initial Order, is structured as a Delivery Order with Firm Fixed Price pricing and a ceiling value of $500. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The contract vehicle is designed to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, with individual task and delivery orders utilizing various contract types across multiple NAICS codes to enable rapid procurement flexibility. This contracting mechanism represents a comprehensive long-term investment in homeland defense capabilities, positioning the SHIELD IDIQ as an enterprise-wide solution enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue orders under a single flexible contract mechanism with full and open competition available to all qualified contractors.