Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF477

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Rivet Operations Company LLC, a San Diego-based, minority-owned small business certified as an 8(a) Program participant, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract vehicle. This $151 billion, 10-year indefinite delivery contract (awarded December 29, 2025, with ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035) is structured to provide advanced multi-domain defense systems and related services capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract encompasses work areas including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains covering all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles as well as other advanced aerial attacks.

The procurement was conducted under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the IDIQ structure. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, with resultant orders potentially issued at different security classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. As a multiple-award IDIQ, this vehicle provides the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities a flexible mechanism to rapidly issue task and delivery orders in support of the nation's multi-layered defense requirements, with individual orders to be structured as firm fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, or other appropriate contract types as determined during the task order competition process.