Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF675

WS3 LLC (UEI: PYYNGSWXBC31) was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a 10-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This procurement utilized full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards. The contract was solicited as a pre-solicitation notice posted May 21, 2025, with a submission deadline of September 15, 2025, and represents an enterprise-wide contracting vehicle designed to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders.

Under this IDV, the contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support 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 from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and NAICS codes, with work potentially classified at different security levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The SHIELD IDIQ is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to address the nation's comprehensive, layered homeland and force defense requirements.