Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF899

Lalaith Astor Technical Consulting House, LLC, a certified 8(a) small business and women-owned small business, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, with no set-aside designation. The contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and extends through December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance consisting of a base ordering period and optional ordering periods. This contract vehicle is structured to enable the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to issue task orders for advanced multi-domain defense systems and related capabilities across multiple contract types and security classification levels, including both classified and unclassified programs.

The procurement encompasses a comprehensive range of defense capabilities including research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. Specifically, the contract supports the development and deployment of advanced, multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains throughout all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial threats. Work will leverage emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The SHIELD IDIQ represents the government's long-term strategic investment in layered homeland defense and is open to all responsible qualified contractors meeting technical and pricing requirements, positioning it as a flexible enterprise contracting mechanism to rapidly execute multiple task orders across the defense industrial base.