Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG111

Lockheed Martin Corporation has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), a defense agency, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance through December 28, 2035. This contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), was awarded on December 29, 2025, following a full and open competition with no set-asides. The contract vehicle is designed to 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. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract scope leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ structure, Lockheed Martin will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance in accordance with individual task and delivery orders issued by MDA and other Department of Defense entities. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, with task and delivery orders potentially utilizing various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. This comprehensive contracting mechanism represents a significant long-term investment positioning the SHIELD IDIQ as a flexible vehicle to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements over the 10-year period of performance.