Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF995

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Drone Go Home, LLC (doing business as Aerodefense) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, represents a comprehensive 10-year national defense procurement vehicle designed to support multi-domain defense capabilities. The contracting vehicle accommodates both classified and unclassified work across multiple security domains and does not utilize any set-aside provisions, allowing for full and open competition. The Missile Defense Agency will serve as the funding agency, with anticipated utilization of various contract types, multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, and support for advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

Under this IDIQ, the contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to deliver an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The contracted scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains throughout all flight phases from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The initial task order, the SHIELD Initial Order, was awarded on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed price of $500 and performance location in Huntsville, Alabama. Aerodefense, a self-certified small disadvantaged business woman-owned LLC, brings relevant experience in counter-unmanned aircraft systems and drone detection technologies developed through prior Small Business Innovation Research program awards from the Department of the Air Force.