Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG093

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Firehawk Aerospace Inc. (UEI: FKWJD9HL5931), a small disadvantaged business headquartered in Addison, Texas, 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, awarded December 29, 2025, utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides and 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, and modernization of advanced defense capabilities. The contract encompasses detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allies across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats.

Under this Indefinite Delivery Vehicle structure, task orders and delivery orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and contract types, with work potentially spanning both classified and unclassified programs requiring various facility clearances. The initial delivery order issued under the contract, valued at $500 and titled "SHIELD Initial Order," is firm fixed price and specifies performance in Huntsville, Alabama. Firehawk Aerospace's prior experience in advanced aerospace and defense manufacturing, particularly in hybrid rocket engine technologies, three-dimensional printed propulsion systems, and innovative propulsion solutions developed through Small Business Innovation Research contracts with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Department of the Army, positions the contractor to support the agency's advanced technology requirements, which include artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.