Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG083

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to The Boeing Company 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. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support national defense objectives through research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract will procure an advanced multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. This procurement was conducted under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the indefinite delivery structure.

Boeing's initial task order under the SHIELD contract, valued at five hundred dollars with a firm fixed price arrangement, initiated the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) initial order on December 29, 2025, with performance through December 28, 2035, and a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and may require appropriate facility clearances depending on classification levels, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under this flexible contracting mechanism to address evolving homeland defense and multi-layered protection requirements against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight.