Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF784

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a $151 billion Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Acquisition Professionals LLC, an Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business certified 8(a) Program participant, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This full and open competition contract, awarded December 29, 2025, with performance extending through December 28, 2035, establishes a comprehensive contracting vehicle to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple security classification levels and NAICS codes.

Under this IDIQ framework, the government intends to award task and delivery orders to all qualifying responsible offerors demonstrating technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing. The initial delivery order issued to Acquisition Professionals LLC carries a ceiling value of $500 with performance at the Huntsville, Alabama location and a firm fixed price structure. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a flexible, long-term contracting mechanism enabling rapid order issuance for the nation's multi-layered defense requirements across a 10-year period of performance consisting of a base ordering period and optional ordering periods.