Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF534

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Spectra Tech, Inc. (UEI: DYXAP3RGMDJ4) on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract was awarded without set-aside designations under full and open competition, allowing multiple qualified contractors to compete for task orders. Spectra Tech, an engineering, environmental, and nuclear services company with demonstrated experience in technical solutions, materials management, engineering support, quality assurance, program management, and radiological services, will serve as a prime contractor under this vehicle.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats throughout all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with work potentially conducted at different security classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances, establishing SHIELD as a flexible, long-term contracting mechanism to support the nation's integrated homeland and defense protection requirements.