Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF956

Lepton Global Solutions LLC, doing business as Kymeta Government & Defense, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and was awarded under full and open competition with no set-aside designation. The initial delivery order, valued at $500 and issued concurrently with the IDIQ award, is firm fixed-price and scheduled for performance in Huntsville, Alabama. This IDIQ contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and enables the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders across various contract types and North American Industry Classification System codes.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system and supporting capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Contracted work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task and delivery orders potentially requiring facility clearances up to the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information classification level. Lepton Global Solutions' expertise in software-enabled metamaterial surface antenna technology and advanced satellite communications solutions positions the company to support communications infrastructure and command-and-control capabilities across the government's layered defense architecture.