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The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Rhombus Power Inc. and other qualifying contractors valued at $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all responsible offerors to compete for multiple awards. Rhombus Power Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Palo Alto, California, received an initial delivery order valued at $500 for work performed in Huntsville, Alabama, with completion scheduled for December 28, 2035. The contract structure accommodates both classified and unclassified programs requiring various facility clearances and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ vehicle, the government intends to rapidly issue task and delivery orders across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and contract types to support national defense objectives through continuous, layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missile, and other advanced aerial attacks targeting the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partner nations. Individual orders will be issued on a firm fixed-price or other contract type basis as determined appropriate for specific requirements. The procurement was announced through pre-solicitation notice in May 2025, with the draft solicitation released in July 2025 and the final Request for Proposal anticipated in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025. All potential offerors were required to register in the System for Award Management to be eligible for contract award. This 10-year contracting vehicle consolidates MDA and other Department of Defense ordering requirements under a single flexible mechanism, enabling efficient procurement and rapid deployment of advanced defense technologies to address evolving multi-domain threat scenarios.