Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF729

Chitra Productions LLC, a Virginia Beach-based Women-Owned Small Business, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program on December 29, 2025. The contract, funded by the Missile Defense Agency under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion over a 10-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. Under this IDIQ vehicle, Chitra Productions will be positioned to receive task and delivery orders for research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts supporting the nation's multi-layered defense requirements against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats.

The contract encompasses work across multiple domains to develop an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Performance will span disruptive technologies, systems engineering, and modernization initiatives leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task orders will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes at different classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances to support both classified and unclassified programs. As a multiple-award vehicle structured to support rapid order issuance by the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities, the SHIELD IDIQ represents a comprehensive contracting solution enabling Chitra Productions to compete for and deliver critical defense capabilities over the extended performance period.