Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF739

Darkstar Intelligence, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business located in Woodbridge, Virginia, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period through December 28, 2035, supports the MDA's mandate to develop and procure advanced, multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing multiple qualifying contractors to compete for individual task and delivery orders across various contract types and National Association of Industrial Classification (NAICS) codes. As a multiple-award vehicle, this IDIQ enables the government to rapidly issue orders for research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related services necessary to maintain layered defense protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles across all phases of flight.

The SHIELD contract encompasses work across classified and unclassified programs requiring appropriate security facility clearances and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. All potential offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) and determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing. The contract structure provides the MDA and other Department of Defense entities with a flexible procurement mechanism to execute multiple orders under a single master IDIQ vehicle, with individual task orders utilizing different contract types and potentially varying classification levels to support the government's comprehensive, long-term investment in multi-layered homeland defense capabilities over the ten-year performance period.