Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF802

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Monte Sano Research Corporation, a Huntsville-based small business defense contractor, effective December 29, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides. Monte Sano Research Corporation will serve as one of multiple awardees under this vehicle, leveraging its established expertise in defense system engineering, research, development, integration, test and evaluation services previously demonstrated through prime and subcontract awards from the Army, Air Force, and MDA. Performance will occur at the contractor's facility in Huntsville, Alabama 35898.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system architecture capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The vehicle supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide continuous, layered protection for the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. An initial task order for the SHIELD program was issued on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed price of five hundred dollars and an identical completion date.