Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF934

VTS JV, LLC has been awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) with an overall ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract was awarded on December 29, 2025, utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside designations, permitting multiple contractors to receive awards under this vehicle. The underlying solicitation, issued as a pre-solicitation notice in May 2025 with the final Request for Proposal anticipated in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, seeks to establish a Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contracting mechanism to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends.

The scope of work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts to support layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, with task orders issued under various contract types and pricing structures as required. The initial task order issued to VTS JV, LLC on December 29, 2025, designated the SHIELD Initial Order with a firm fixed price of five hundred dollars and an identical completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to fulfill the MDA's comprehensive, long-term investment in multi-layered homeland defense capabilities.