Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF692

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Watts.ai, Inc. (UEI: LAKNEVCL1MV1) effective January 21, 2026, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract vehicle, valued at $151 billion with a period of performance through December 28, 2035, represents a 10-year enterprise-wide contracting mechanism utilizing full and open competition with no set-asides. The contract establishes a framework for the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to issue task and delivery orders for advanced multi-domain defense system development and sustainment. The government intends to award to all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing, consistent with Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii).

The contracted products and services encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts supporting a layered defense architecture capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. Individual task orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and contract types to support both classified and unclassified programs requiring appropriate facility clearances. The SHIELD IDIQ leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide continuous protection of United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial threats. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance under each issued order.