Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF642

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a $151 billion multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Umbra Lab, Inc. on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) master contract vehicle. The contract extends through December 28, 2035, and will be performed by Umbra Lab's Santa Barbara, California headquarters with no set-aside designation. Under this IDV, Umbra Lab will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support the MDA's multi-domain defense procurement objectives, leveraging the contractor's established expertise in synthetic aperture radar microsatellite technology and advanced geospatial data services.

The SHIELD contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts to deliver an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The vehicle supports national defense objectives through continuous, layered protection across ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, incorporating disruptive technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The contract structure accommodates multiple task and delivery orders across various contract types and security classification levels, utilizing full and open competition among qualifying contractors and positioning the SHIELD IDIQ as a comprehensive contracting solution for multi-layered homeland and forward-deployed defense capabilities.