Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG075

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Kaihonua LLC and other qualifying contractors on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and is structured to support the procurement of an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract encompasses 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.

Kaihonua LLC, a Native Hawaiian Organization-owned, SBA Certified 8(a) small business headquartered in Kailua, Hawaii, received an initial firm fixed-price delivery order under the SHIELD IDIQ on December 29, 2025, for the SHIELD Initial Order with a base value of $500, with performance to be conducted in Huntsville, Alabama through December 28, 2035. The contract vehicle is designed 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, with individual task and delivery orders to utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and potentially requiring appropriate facility clearances for classified work. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to the performance of contract requirements in accordance with task order specifications.