Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF414

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Physics, Materials, And Applied Mathematics Research L.L.C. (doing business as Pm&Am Research) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to procure advanced systems and research and development services capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing the government to rapidly issue task and delivery orders under a flexible contracting mechanism that supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains. The initial task order, valued at $500 (firm fixed price), was placed on the same award date with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, reflecting the contract's operational structure for issuing multiple orders throughout the 10-year period of performance.

Under this IDIQ vehicle, the contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts aligned with national defense objectives. The SHIELD contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to address evolving threat scenarios. Pm&Am Research, a small business specializing in basic, applied, and computational research with extensive Department of Defense contracting experience, will perform work across multiple NAICS codes and classification levels, with individual task orders potentially utilizing various contract types to support both MDA and other Department of Defense entities in achieving continuous, layered protection against emerging threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allies.