Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF517

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Sd3It, LLC, a Women-Owned Small Business and HUBZone-certified firm headquartered in Seffner, Florida, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support the nation's layered defense architecture. The contract was awarded on December 29, 2025, without set-aside designations, utilizing full and open competition principles. The SHIELD IDIQ establishes a flexible contracting mechanism enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue multiple task and delivery orders for advanced defense capabilities across classified and unclassified security domains.

The contract scope encompasses research and development, systems engineering, prototyping, 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 including ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, cruise missiles, and advanced aerial attacks targeting the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partner nations. Work areas span all phases of flight protection and incorporate disruptive technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. An initial task order for the SHIELD program was awarded to Sd3It, LLC on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed price of five hundred dollars and a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, establishing the foundation for subsequent orders under this 10-year enterprise-wide contracting vehicle.