Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF806

Never Ending Technology Inc., an SBA-certified economically disadvantaged women-owned small business, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract, utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside designations, establishes a comprehensive contracting vehicle for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and disruptive technologies for an advanced multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The contract structure 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, with individual task orders utilizing various contract types across multiple NAICS codes.

The initial Delivery Order under this IDIQ, designated as the SHIELD Initial Order, was awarded on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of five hundred dollars and a firm fixed price structure, with performance to be completed by December 28, 2035, and place of performance located in Huntsville, Alabama 35898. The IDIQ contract mechanism is designed to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue multiple awards to qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing, allowing for flexible procurement of layered homeland defense capabilities over the 10-year period of performance consisting of a base ordering period and optional ordering periods.