Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF980

Spectral Sciences, Inc., a small business headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, which procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple classification levels and security domains. The procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the flexible IDIQ structure.

Under this contract vehicle, Spectral Sciences received its initial task order on December 29, 2025, valued at five hundred dollars for the SHIELD Initial Order, with performance to be completed by December 28, 2035, and place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide comprehensive multi-layered defense capabilities. As a prime contractor, Spectral Sciences will draw upon its established expertise in spectroscopy, remote sensing, hyperspectral imaging, and signature modeling—capabilities previously demonstrated through successful delivery on Department of Defense and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contracts—to support the government's long-term investment in national homeland defense infrastructure.