Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF741

Dutch Ridge Consulting Group LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, as part of the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion over a 10-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, and operates under full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract serves as an enterprise-wide vehicle enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue task orders for advanced multi-domain defense capabilities, with individual orders potentially spanning multiple contract types across various North American Industry Classification System codes and security classification levels.

The SHIELD contract procurement encompasses a comprehensive scope of work supporting national defense objectives through research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract is designed to procure an integrated, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. Work areas leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with the contract structured to support both classified and unclassified programs requiring appropriate facility clearances. As a multiple-award vehicle, the contract enables multiple contractors to compete for task orders, positioning Dutch Ridge Consulting Group as one of several qualified vendors available to support the nation's layered, multi-domain homeland and force protection requirements.