Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG062

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Aptima Inc., a small business headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract was awarded on December 29, 2025, with no set-aside designation, allowing full and open competition among qualified contractors. The primary scope encompasses 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. Work areas include research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts addressing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks.

Performance of this contract is centered in Huntsville, Alabama, with Aptima positioned to deliver services under a firm-fixed-price structure. The initial task order, valued at five hundred dollars and awarded December 29, 2025, serves as the opening order under the broader IDIQ vehicle. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes with completion targeted through December 28, 2035, enabling MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a single flexible contracting mechanism to address the nation's comprehensive, multi-layered defense requirements.