Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF645

The Missile Defense Agency awarded Trusted Space Inc., a small business specializing in advanced space technology research and development, a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. Awarded on December 29, 2025, with no set-aside designation, this contract provides a comprehensive contracting mechanism for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The SHIELD IDIQ enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders for an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contract encompasses work in research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts targeting threats from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all phases of flight.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ structure, Trusted Space Inc. shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required for performance in accordance with issued task orders. The initial task order, valued at $500 under firm fixed price terms, is designated for the SHIELD initial order with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and anticipates leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. As a multiple award vehicle utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside designations, the SHIELD IDIQ was designed to allow qualified contractors to compete and receive task orders across various contract types and multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, with individual orders potentially requiring appropriate facility clearances for their respective classification levels.