Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF954

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance through December 28, 2035. This contract vehicle was awarded on December 29, 2025, through full and open competition with no set-asides, and represents a comprehensive contracting mechanism designed to support multi-domain defense capabilities across the Department of Defense. The SHIELD IDIQ contract will serve as a flexible ordering vehicle enabling the MDA and other DoD entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders for advanced defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners.

The contract encompasses a broad scope of work including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and advanced capabilities across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. Work will address ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, as well as other advanced aerial attacks, across all phases of flight. The initial task order, valued at five hundred dollars with firm fixed price terms, was awarded on the same date as the IDIQ contract, with place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs at multiple security classification levels and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to deliver integrated, layered defense solutions.