Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG063

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract valued at $151 billion to Quality Analytics Associates, Inc., a Women-Owned Small Business and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business certified firm based in Bono, Arkansas. This contract, designated as SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense), represents a comprehensive, multi-year procurement vehicle with a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. The contract will be executed without any set-aside restrictions, allowing multiple qualified contractors to compete for task orders under full and open competition. The prime contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the government's performance requirements under individual orders issued against this indefinite delivery vehicle.

The SHIELD contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system and associated support services capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts targeting ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats across all flight phases. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and may be classified at multiple security levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a flexible contracting mechanism enabling rapid issuance of orders across the Department of Defense.