Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF631

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to The Oryza Group LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) based in Douglasville, Georgia, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards. The contract is structured to support advanced, multi-domain defense system development and deployment capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work under the SHIELD vehicle encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts addressing ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial threats across all phases of flight.

The initial delivery order issued to The Oryza Group LLC on December 29, 2025, carries a firm fixed-price award of five hundred dollars with place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, and performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract vehicle is structured to leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, and is designed to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and may require appropriate facility clearances depending on classification levels. This contracting mechanism represents a comprehensive, long-term investment vehicle enabling the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders supporting the nation's multi-layered homeland defense requirements under a single flexible contract framework.