Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF867

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Thermoanalytics, Inc. (UEI: W1XGW9YPELM6), a small business headquartered in Calumet, Michigan, on December 29, 2025. The contract, known as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This full and open competition multiple award vehicle contains no set-aside designations and was issued without incumbent contractors, representing a new enterprise-wide contracting mechanism designed to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders across classified and unclassified programs. The contract structure supports various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and accommodates work at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Work areas encompass 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 flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The inaugural task order, issued on December 29, 2025, was valued at five hundred dollars on a firm-fixed-price basis with performance in Huntsville, Alabama, and completion by December 28, 2035. The contract vehicle leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide comprehensive multi-layered defense solutions supporting national defense objectives across a 10-year period of performance.