Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF668

Windlift Inc. (UEI: MY6KUXGLF1F4) was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) master indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract vehicle. The contract has a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. Under this contract, Windlift shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required for performance of task orders issued by the government. The SHIELD contract was solicited through full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue multiple delivery orders across a 10-year period of performance for advanced multi-domain defense capabilities.

The SHIELD contract procurement encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapons design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts supporting a multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats including ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks across air, missile, space, and cyber domains. Windlift, an airborne wind energy technology company, will support national defense objectives through its expertise in advanced technologies and systems development. Individual task and delivery orders issued under the SHIELD vehicle will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industrial Classification System codes, with work potentially performed at classified and unclassified facility levels requiring appropriate security clearances. The contract structure leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide the Missile Defense Agency with a flexible, long-term contracting mechanism for rapid acquisition of innovative homeland defense capabilities.