Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF879

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Upslope Advisors Inc. (UEI: GJ52Z9FTCHR6) valued at $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support the nation's layered defense capabilities. Upslope Advisors, a SBA-certified 8(a) small disadvantaged business headquartered in Denver, Colorado, was selected through full and open competition without set-aside designations. The SHIELD contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts 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.

Under this IDIQ vehicle, task orders will address advanced defense system requirements across multiple contract types, pricing structures, and National Association of Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, with individual orders potentially classified at varying security levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The initial task order, the SHIELD Initial Order, was awarded on December 29, 2025, at a ceiling value of $500 under a firm fixed-price delivery order structure, with performance conducted in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract leverages cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide continuous, multi-layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. This ten-year contract vehicle is structured to enable the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders addressing evolving national defense objectives and modernization requirements.