Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF953

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract is a multiple award vehicle issued by the Missile Defense Agency with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. Awarded to Karagozian & Case, Inc. on December 29, 2025, this contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing the government to issue task orders across multiple NAICS codes and classification levels. The contract supports the development, prototyping, systems engineering, production, and testing of advanced multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all flight phases, including protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles targeting the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations.

Karagozian & Case, a science and engineering consulting firm headquartered in Glendale, California, brings extensive expertise in blast effects analysis, structural engineering, weapons systems analysis, protective design, modeling and simulation, and digital engineering to support this critical national defense initiative. The initial task order, titled SHIELD Initial Order, was issued on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed price of $500 and performance at the Missile Defense Agency's Huntsville, Alabama facility through December 28, 2035. The SHIELD IDIQ represents a comprehensive long-term contracting solution leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to fulfill the nation's multi-layered homeland and strategic defense requirements.