Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF787

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Aevum Inc., a minority-owned small business specializing in advanced air, space, and transportation services, effective December 29, 2025, through December 28, 2035. The contract carries a $151 billion ceiling value and establishes a comprehensive contracting vehicle for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract operates under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue multiple task and delivery orders across a 10-year period of performance. Aevum's Division of Space & Defense will provide research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, and other technical services to support the government's multi-domain defense objectives.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures advanced defense system capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work areas encompass threat mitigation against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all phases of flight, alongside systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverages emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. An initial delivery order valued at $500 was issued on December 29, 2025, with place of performance designated as Huntsville, Alabama, the location of the Missile Defense Agency's headquarters. Individual task orders will utilize various contract types and pricing mechanisms across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with the flexible structure enabling rapid issuance of orders to support national defense objectives.