Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF574

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to The University of Texas at El Paso on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract vehicle, designated as Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), supports the nation's multi-layered defense requirements through full and open competition with no set-asides. The underlying indefinite delivery contract obligates the contractor to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required for performance in accordance with task order specifications.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ structure, the Missile Defense Agency intends to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile flight. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, with individual task and delivery orders structured across multiple NAICS codes and classification levels. The initial task order awarded to UTEP on December 29, 2025, for the SHIELD program is valued at five hundred dollars on a firm fixed price basis, with performance to be conducted in Huntsville, Alabama. This comprehensive contracting vehicle leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains.