Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF398

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, awarded by the Missile Defense Agency to Nooks LLC on December 29, 2025, represents a $151 billion defense procurement vehicle with a 10-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This multiple-award IDIQ contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, enabling the government to issue task orders for advanced multi-domain defense capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile defense. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts to support national defense objectives and protect the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ contract structure, individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and security classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances for both classified and unclassified work. The initial delivery order, awarded to Nooks LLC with a nominal ceiling value of $500 and a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, establishes the contract baseline for subsequent task order issuance. As a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, Nooks LLC brings demonstrated expertise in advanced technological solutions, secure facility management, and defense applications from prior contracts with the U.S. Air Force, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and other defense agencies. The SHIELD IDIQ leverages emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a comprehensive, scalable contracting mechanism supporting the nation's layered homeland defense requirements.