Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF937

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract valued at $151 billion to Engineering and Software System Solutions, Inc. (ES3), a woman-owned small business headquartered in San Diego, California, on December 29, 2025. The contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, establishes a 10-year ordering vehicle with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing the government to issue multiple awards to qualified contractors. The initial delivery order, issued on the same date as the IDV award, carries a ceiling value of $500 and is classified as a firm fixed price delivery order with performance location in Huntsville, Alabama.

The SHIELD contract encompasses an extensive scope of work supporting the development, integration, and sustainment of advanced multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. Contracted work areas include research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple security classification levels and facility clearance requirements. The contract leverages emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide continuous, layered protection for the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. Under the terms of this IDV, ES3 shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to perform contracted requirements, with individual task and delivery orders issued under various contract types and multiple North American Industry Classification System codes throughout the 10-year performance period.