Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF481

Rescue Rover LLC, a veteran-owned small business headquartered in Frederick, Maryland, was awarded a $151 billion multiple award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on January 21, 2026, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to procure advanced systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. This full and open competition vehicle utilizes no set-asides and awards to all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing. The initial task order, valued at five hundred dollars and issued under firm fixed price terms, addresses the SHIELD initial order and is based at Huntsville, Alabama, with completion scheduled for December 28, 2035.

The SHIELD IDIQ is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The contract vehicle is positioned to enable rapid procurement of layered defense capabilities across the Department of Defense enterprise through individual task and delivery orders that may utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and classification levels. This procurement reflects a significant long-term strategic investment in homeland defense capabilities, allowing the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities flexibility in rapidly issuing orders under a single contracting mechanism to address evolving multi-layered defense requirements for the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners.