Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF638

Thunderbolt Software LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, was awarded a position on the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract on December 29, 2025. This $151 billion, 10-year indefinite delivery vehicle extends through December 28, 2035, and represents a comprehensive contracting solution designed to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements with no set-aside designation and full and open competition among qualifying contractors. The contract will be funded by the Missile Defense Agency, a Department of Defense component responsible for protecting the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, and allies against advanced aerial threats.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ, Thunderbolt Software LLC will be positioned to compete for task orders spanning research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract encompasses multi-domain defense capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains, addressing ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats across all phases of flight. Work will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task and delivery orders potentially issued at various classification levels across multiple NAICS codes. As a multiple-award vehicle, the SHIELD contract allows the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a flexible contracting mechanism, with Thunderbolt positioned as one qualifying contractor among multiple awardees eligible to pursue substantial defense opportunities through the contract's 10-year period of performance.