Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF819

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Phoenix Defense Ventures, LLC under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program on December 29, 2025. This contract, valued at $151 billion with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, was awarded with no set-aside designation, allowing full and open competition among qualified contractors. Phoenix Defense Ventures, identified as a self-certified small disadvantaged business, will provide comprehensive materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support the contract's performance objectives. The initial task order, valued at $500 with firm fixed price terms, was issued on December 29, 2025, with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama.

The SHIELD contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to procure advanced systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and disruptive technology initiatives to counter air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work under the contract will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with anticipated task orders potentially issued at multiple classification levels and across various contract types and North American Industry Classification System codes. This ten-year contracting vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, positioning it as a strategic, flexible procurement mechanism for the Missile Defense Agency's long-term homeland defense modernization objectives.