Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF589

The Mission Essential Group, LLC has been awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract by the Missile Defense Agency with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period through December 28, 2035. This contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a comprehensive multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partner nations. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains, including protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all phases of flight. The award was issued on December 29, 2025, with no set-aside designation, utilizing full and open competition allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under this Indefinite Quantity structure.

An initial delivery order valued at $500 has been issued under this IDIQ contract for the SHIELD program's initial phase, with performance taking place in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract utilizes firm fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing structures across individual task and delivery orders, which will support both classified and unclassified programs requiring appropriate facility clearances. The procurement leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a flexible, enterprise-wide contracting mechanism enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders supporting the nation's multi-layered defense requirements over the ten-year performance period.