Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG098

Vets, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and service-disabled veteran-owned enterprise, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency 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 utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the indefinite delivery indefinite quantity structure. Work under this contract encompasses the development and delivery of advanced systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, leveraging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

The initial delivery order issued to Vets, LLC under the SHIELD IDIQ contract, awarded December 29, 2025, is valued at $500 on a firm-fixed-price basis and is scheduled for completion by December 28, 2035, with performance to be conducted in Huntsville, Alabama. Individual task and delivery orders under the SHIELD vehicle will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and may require appropriate facility clearances to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains. The contract vehicle is structured as a flexible, enterprise-wide contracting mechanism enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders supporting continuous, layered protection requirements for the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners.