Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG114

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Cornerstone Research Group Inc. (doing business as CRG Defense, Inc.) for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance through December 28, 2035. This is a full and open competition vehicle with no set-asides, structured 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 across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts supporting protection against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, with the initial delivery order awarded at $500 on a firm fixed price basis.

The SHIELD IDIQ represents a comprehensive, long-term contracting vehicle designed to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue multiple task orders under a single flexible mechanism. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. As a small business aerospace and defense firm specializing in innovative research and engineering services, Cornerstone Research Group brings relevant experience from its existing federal portfolio, including substantial work on advanced weapons systems, propulsion technologies, and rapid development programs through similar indefinite delivery vehicles. Individual task and delivery orders under the SHIELD IDIQ will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and may require appropriate facility clearances depending on classification levels, positioning this vehicle as a strategic national defense investment in multi-layered homeland protection capabilities.