Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF513

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Sequoia Holdings, LLC on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract, valued at $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, represents a 10-year comprehensive contracting vehicle designed 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 contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and allows multiple award recipients to compete for task orders. Sequoia Holdings, a Reston, Virginia-based, employee-owned company specializing in engineering and analytic solutions for national security, was selected as one of the qualifying contractors to support this initiative through provision of all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities in accordance with individual task order requirements.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract encompasses a broad scope of work 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 defense domains. The procurement covers protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats across all phases of flight and other advanced aerial attacks. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and may be issued at different 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 to provide continuous, layered protection aligned with national defense objectives.