Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF436

Quindar Inc., a small business technology contractor based in Arvada, Colorado, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a comprehensive multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Work under this IDIQ 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 across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract was awarded under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, utilizing Firm Fixed Price pricing for individual task and delivery orders that may span multiple NAICS codes and security classification levels.

The initial task order issued under this IDIQ is the SHIELD Initial Order, awarded on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $500 and a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. This initial order establishes the contractual framework through which the MDA and other Department of Defense entities can rapidly issue subsequent orders for defense capabilities leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Given Quindar's existing expertise in spacecraft mission management systems and automated satellite operations platforms developed through prior Air Force Research Laboratory contracts, the company's participation in this broad-based SHIELD contract vehicle positions it to support the government's multi-layered defense requirements over the 10-year ordering period, with the potential for significant expansion of work through future task orders.