Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF694

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Vista Innovative Solutions, LLC, a small disadvantaged business headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with a contract ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense) contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing for multiple awards to qualifying contractors, and was awarded on December 29, 2025, following a pre-solicitation notice issued on May 21, 2025, and a draft solicitation released in late July 2025. Vista Innovative Solutions holds SBA 8(a) certification valid through March 2031 and brings demonstrated expertise in providing enterprise-level technical and support services to Department of Defense entities.

Under this IDIQ structure, the government intends to rapidly issue individual task and delivery orders across multiple contract types and NAICS codes to support both classified and unclassified programs requiring advanced technological capabilities including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The initial task order awarded under this contract, valued at $500 and titled the SHIELD Initial Order, is designated as a Firm Fixed Price Delivery Order with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, and carries the same completion date as the overall IDIQ contract. The scope encompasses detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial threats across all phases of flight, positioning this contract vehicle as a foundational instrument for sustained homeland defense modernization and multi-layered protection capabilities for the United States and its allies.