Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF492

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Sentar, Inc., a woman-owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, effective December 29, 2025, through December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization of advanced defense systems. Under this indefinite delivery vehicle, the contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required for performance. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no small business set-aside, allowing the government to issue task and delivery orders across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and contract types, supporting both classified and unclassified work requiring various facility clearance levels.

The SHIELD IDIQ procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. Work encompasses protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all flight phases, leveraging disruptive technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Sentar's award positions the company to compete for task orders supporting MDA and other Department of Defense entities seeking rapid order issuance through a flexible contracting mechanism. This 10-year procurement reflects a significant long-term investment in layered homeland defense capabilities, with individual delivery orders structured to support diverse mission requirements across multiple security classification levels and functional domains.