Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF564

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This indefinite delivery contract has a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, and utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract was awarded without incumbent restrictions, allowing all qualified contractors meeting responsibility and technical acceptability standards to compete for multiple awards. The prime contractor, Teledyne Brown Engineering, is a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, and has established significant expertise in advanced engineering, systems integration, and technical services for Department of Defense mission-critical programs, positioning it to execute the complex requirements of this enterprise-wide contracting vehicle.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ, the contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support a multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partner nations. The scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technology development, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work will be performed at multiple locations, with initial task order activity noted at Huntsville, Alabama. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs at multiple security classification levels, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, with individual delivery orders utilizing various contract types and pricing mechanisms to enable rapid, flexible procurement of defense capabilities over the 10-year performance period.