Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF577

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to The Cadmus Group LLC on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This $151 billion contract, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support national defense objectives through advanced homeland protection capabilities. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts targeting detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The SHIELD IDIQ is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and utilizes various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with individual task and delivery orders requiring appropriate facility clearances based on classification levels.

As the awardee, The Cadmus Group LLC will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance under this vehicle. However, the contractor's historical performance and existing contract portfolio—which emphasizes environmental protection, water infrastructure, emergency management, and transportation consulting through contracts with civilian federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Federal Highway Administration—presents a significant divergence from the advanced defense and weapons systems focus of the SHIELD program. This award appears to position The Cadmus Group within the broader defense industrial base, potentially leveraging the firm's technical expertise and program management capabilities to support strategic consulting, systems engineering, or specialized technical assistance functions within the multi-layered defense framework, though the specific nature of task orders issued under this vehicle will ultimately define the contractor's role in delivering SHIELD capabilities.