Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF762

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) is a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract awarded by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to Gray Link Technologies LLC and other qualifying contractors on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract vehicle supports national defense objectives by procuring an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts targeting ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats throughout all phases of flight. The procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards, and is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

Gray Link Technologies LLC, a for-profit information technology services company based in Auburn, Alabama, received the initial task order under the SHIELD contract with an award value of $500 for the initial order, with performance taking place in Huntsville, Alabama. Under the firm fixed price delivery order structure, Gray Link Technologies LLC will provide the necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to the performance of the SHIELD requirements in accordance with contract terms. Individual task and delivery orders issued under this IDIQ vehicle will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with orders potentially issued at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances, enabling the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a single, flexible contracting mechanism designed to support comprehensive, long-term investment in the nation's multi-layered defense requirements.