Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF838

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Paragon Force, Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small business headquartered in Bloomfield, Indiana, effective December 29, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract has a ceiling value of $151 billion and supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, which represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides and contemplates awards to all qualifying responsible offerors submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing. Performance will occur across multiple locations, including Huntsville, Alabama, with work conducted at various security classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.

The scope of work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and defense against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The initial task order issued to Paragon Force, Inc. on December 29, 2025, addresses the SHIELD Initial Order with a firm fixed price of $500 and a completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract vehicle is structured to support classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, positioning the SHIELD IDIQ as a flexible contracting solution enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a single comprehensive contract mechanism over the ten-year period of performance.