Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF584

The Columbia Group Inc. (TCG) has been awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), a defense agency. This contract, valued at $151 billion with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, represents a comprehensive contracting vehicle for the development, production, and sustainment of an advanced multi-domain defense system. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing multiple contractors to compete for task orders. As a minority-owned and Asian-Pacific American-owned business based in Alexandria, Virginia, TCG will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the MDA's national defense objectives.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract encompasses a broad scope of work including research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts for an integrated defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The contract will support both classified and unclassified programs utilizing advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders under this vehicle will employ various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and may require facility clearances at different classification levels. TCG's existing expertise in systems engineering, naval acquisition support, and unmanned systems development positions the company to support MDA's defense modernization requirements through flexible task order issuance over the ten-year ordering period.