Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF847

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) to Slingshot Aerospace Inc. on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract employs full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing multiple qualified contractors to receive awards and issue task orders. The SHIELD IDIQ represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense system procurement designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains throughout all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, with anticipated orders at various classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.

As a prime contractor under this vehicle, Slingshot Aerospace will leverage its established expertise in advanced space domain awareness, satellite tracking, predictive analytics, mission operations technologies, and optical tracking systems to support the Missile Defense Agency's strategic objectives. The company's background in space situational awareness, digital twin software platforms, on-orbit threat identification, and advanced visualization environments positions it to contribute sophisticated technical solutions to the layered defense enterprise. The contract vehicle is structured to facilitate rapid order issuance across multiple NAICS codes and contract types, incorporating emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to meet the nation's evolving multi-layered defense requirements over the 10-year period of performance.