Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF786

Acme Solutions LLC, a small disadvantaged business based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, designated the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support the nation's layered missile defense architecture. The contract was awarded on December 29, 2025, without set-aside designations, reflecting full and open competition among qualifying contractors. Work to be performed encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related efforts necessary to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight.

The SHIELD IDIQ structure allows the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue individual task and delivery orders across multiple NAICS codes, utilizing various contract types to support both classified and unclassified programs. Anticipated work areas leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide continuous, layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, as well as other advanced aerial attacks targeting the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. Individual task orders will be issued at different classification levels and may require facility clearances appropriate to the security classification of the work. The contract vehicle was structured to enable flexible, responsive procurement of complex defense capabilities over a 10-year period, positioning it as the primary contracting mechanism for the nation's multi-layered homeland defense requirements.