Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF696

Aeronix, Inc., a small business prime contractor headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, was issued under full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The inaugural delivery order, valued at five hundred dollars and issued the same day as the parent contract award, is designated as the SHIELD Initial Order and will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama. Aeronix will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the contract's performance objectives under firm fixed price terms.

The SHIELD IDIQ procurement is structured to provide comprehensive multi-domain defense capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats targeting the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners across all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. The contract encompasses extensive scope including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and advanced technology integration incorporating artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This ten-year contracting vehicle is designed to support both classified and unclassified programs requiring appropriate facility clearances, positioning the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task orders and leverage flexible contracting mechanisms to advance the nation's integrated air and missile defense posture.