Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF606

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to the Alabama A&M University Research, Innovation, Science And Engineering Foundation, Inc. (Aamu-Rise Foundation) with a ceiling value of $150 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, which represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, enabling the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders across multiple contract types and classification levels for both classified and unclassified programs.

The scope of work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The initial delivery order issued on December 29, 2025, titled "SHIELD Initial Order," carries a firm fixed-price of $500 and is performed at the Huntsville, Alabama location. Individual task and delivery orders will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with work to be performed across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and requiring appropriate facility clearances for various security classification levels.