Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF608

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to The Avery Group, LLC and other qualifying contractors for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract, awarded December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a 10-year period of performance through December 28, 2035. This procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, enabling the government to issue task and delivery orders for research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization of advanced multi-domain defense systems. The work encompasses detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization capabilities against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile flight. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures across multiple security domains and facility clearance levels.

The Avery Group, LLC, a minority-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned small business certified under the SBA 8(a) Program, has received the initial SHIELD delivery order with a contract value of $500 (Firm Fixed Price) and performance location in Huntsville, Alabama. As a prime contractor on this IDIQ, The Avery Group will be positioned to compete for task orders supporting the government's multi-layered defense objectives for the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The company's background in professional services, IT support, systems engineering, and analytics capabilities positions it within the broader contractor base that will execute this comprehensive, long-term investment in the nation's defense infrastructure through individual task and delivery orders issued under the flexible IDIQ mechanism.