Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF512

Savant Financial Technologies Inc., doing business as Ariel Partners, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. As a certified women-owned small business, Ariel Partners will serve as one of multiple awardees under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) master IDIQ vehicle, which represents a comprehensive contracting mechanism designed to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and will accommodate task and delivery orders across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances for both classified and unclassified program work.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ, Ariel Partners and co-contractors will provide research and development, systems engineering, prototyping, disruptive technologies, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts to develop 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 procurement encompasses protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. Individual task orders will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support both immediate operational needs and long-term strategic defense modernization across multiple Department of Defense entities.