Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF498

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Sayres And Associates LLC on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a ten-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, utilizing full and open competition with no set-asides. This enterprise-wide contracting vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task orders for advanced multi-domain defense capabilities. The contract was awarded without set-asides, and Sayres And Associates LLC, a defense contractor specializing in program management, engineering, logistics management, and integrated support services, was selected as one of multiple qualifying awardees based on technical acceptability, responsibility, and fair and reasonable pricing.

Work under the SHIELD IDIQ encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The system is designed to provide continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. An initial task order valued at five hundred dollars was awarded on December 29, 2025, with firm fixed price pricing and a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. Individual task and delivery orders under this contract vehicle will utilize various contract types and may require appropriate facility clearances, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements.