Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG097

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to KB John LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged and veteran-owned business based in Seattle, Washington, on December 29, 2025. This defense contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract provides the MDA and other Department of Defense entities with a flexible contracting mechanism to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and capabilities across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains, including protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract was awarded under full and open competition with no set-asides to all qualifying offerors submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing.

An initial delivery order valued at five hundred dollars for the SHIELD program was awarded to KB John LLC on December 29, 2025, with performance at Huntsville, Alabama. The underlying solicitation, released as a pre-solicitation notice in May 2025 with a final RFP anticipated in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, anticipated multiple awards to responsible sources and structured the vehicle to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a comprehensive contracting solution for the nation's multi-layered defense requirements over a ten-year period of performance comprising a base ordering period and optional ordering periods. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with certain orders potentially requiring appropriate facility clearances for classified work.