Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF913

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Fifth Gait Technologies, Inc., a small, woman-owned, Hispanic American-owned business headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) initiative. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, and was awarded on December 29, 2025, following a pre-solicitation notice issued on May 21, 2025. This procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, enabling MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue multiple task orders for research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts across a comprehensive multi-domain defense architecture.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract supports national defense objectives by procuring an advanced, integrated defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. Fifth Gait Technologies brings specialized expertise in space weather modeling, radiation detection and analysis, and advanced technology development, with demonstrated experience supporting MDA and other defense agencies through previous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts and subcontract work with major prime contractors. The initial delivery order, valued at five hundred dollars and issued on December 29, 2025, is designated as a Firm Fixed Price contract with performance to occur in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract vehicle is structured to accommodate both classified and unclassified programs at multiple security classification levels, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a comprehensive, long-term contracting solution for the nation's layered homeland defense requirements.