Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG082

The Missile Defense Agency awarded E&M Technologies, Inc., a woman-owned small business, a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and performance through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition contract employs no set-asides and establishes a comprehensive contracting vehicle enabling the Department of Defense to procure advanced multi-domain defense systems and related services. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts aimed at detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains.

The SHIELD IDIQ will support national defense objectives by providing layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks throughout all phases of flight. Work will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task and delivery orders structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes. The initial delivery order issued to E&M Technologies carries a ceiling value of five hundred dollars on a firm fixed price basis, with the place of performance located in Huntsville, Alabama. The solicitation, released as a pre-solicitation notice in May 2025 with the final Request for Proposal anticipated in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, indicates this represents a significant long-term investment establishing a flexible contracting mechanism for rapid order issuance across the Department of Defense enterprise.