Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF672

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Worksters Inc. (UEI: DFDUJX5HKFS3) on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside designations. Worksters Inc., a Small Business Administration Certified Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business and 8A Program Participant, will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the contract performance. The contractor specializes in technical recruiting, data collection and analytics, document imaging and digitalization, and IT modernization services, with demonstrated experience providing IT hardware and software, engineering design services, and administrative support to federal agencies across the Department of Defense and civilian agencies.

The SHIELD contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense acquisition vehicle designed to procure an advanced system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile flight. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and classification levels, with the contract vehicle structured to support both classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The solicitation was posted on May 21, 2025, with the final Request for Proposal anticipated for release in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, establishing this as a significant long-term strategic investment in layered homeland defense capabilities.