Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF874

Tekla Research, Inc., a veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Lexington Park, Maryland, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on January 21, 2026, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. Under this Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ contract, Tekla Research shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required for performance, with work encompassing research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract represents a 10-year procurement vehicle utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside designations, though Tekla Research was selected as one of multiple qualified award recipients determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract is structured to support the Missile Defense Agency's objective of procuring an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. The contract will facilitate rapid issuance of individual task and delivery orders across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and classification levels, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This procurement vehicle enables the government to obtain comprehensive layered protection capabilities against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all phases of flight, with task orders potentially issued at various classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances to support both classified and unclassified programs.