Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG092

Saliense Consulting LLC has been awarded a multiple award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. The contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), represents an advanced, multi-domain defense system procurement designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The contract supports research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. The contract is structured under full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing multiple qualified contractors to compete for task orders. Individual delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and may be issued at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.

The initial delivery order issued to Saliense on December 29, 2025, for the SHIELD program is valued at five hundred dollars on a firm fixed-price basis, with performance at Huntsville, Alabama. The Missile Defense Agency intends to utilize the SHIELD IDIQ as a comprehensive contracting solution supporting both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This 10-year contract vehicle positions the government to rapidly issue orders under a single flexible mechanism to meet critical national defense objectives through layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats.