Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF968

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Certus Core, Inc. (UEI: D7KGSXWL9NL7) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract vehicle, designated Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement mechanism designed to support national defense objectives through continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and is structured to accommodate both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across all phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. The funding agency is the Missile Defense Agency, a defense organization, and the contract was issued without geographic or small business set-asides.

Under this IDIQ vehicle, the contractor is responsible for providing all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance in accordance with the terms of individual orders. The initial task order, awarded December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of five hundred dollars with a firm fixed price structure and a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, positioning Certus Core, a self-certified small disadvantaged, veteran-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned business with established expertise in defense sector technology solutions, to deliver innovative prototypes, products, and services that support the Department of Defense's technological innovation objectives across multiple operational domains through the 10-year period of performance.