Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF836

Rise8 Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, as part of the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance. This full and open competition IDIQ was procured without set-aside restrictions and allows the government to issue multiple task and delivery orders across various contract types and National Association of Industry Classification (NAICS) codes. Rise8 will provide comprehensive materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support the contract's performance in accordance with task order requirements.

The SHIELD IDIQ is designed to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Contracted work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts addressing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile flight. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with task orders potentially issued at multiple classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. As an established software development and digital transformation service provider with significant federal contracting experience, Rise8 is positioned to support the Missile Defense Agency's long-term investment in layered homeland defense capabilities through the issuance of individual task and delivery orders under this flexible enterprise-wide contracting mechanism.