Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF782

Adapt Forward LLC, a veteran-owned cybersecurity and systems engineering firm, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, titled the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle structured to support national defense objectives through full and open competition with no set-aside designations. Under this IDIQ, the contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to execute individual task and delivery orders issued by MDA and other Department of Defense entities. The contract utilizes various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, with task and delivery orders potentially issued at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.

The SHIELD IDIQ procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends, including protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract vehicle leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to deliver continuous, layered protection across multiple security domains. As a firm with demonstrated experience providing cybersecurity services, systems engineering support, and cyber red team operational capabilities to federal agencies including the Department of the Navy and Defense Health Agency, Adapt Forward is positioned to support MDA's multi-layered defense requirements through the rapid issuance of orders under this flexible, 10-year contracting mechanism.