Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG118

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Continental Electronics Corp on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This $151 billion contract vehicle, with a ceiling value extending through December 28, 2035, represents a full and open competition procurement with no set-aside designations. The contract is structured to support research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and disruptive technology initiatives. Work encompasses multi-domain defense capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task orders authorized to utilize various contract types and pricing mechanisms across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes.

The initial delivery order issued to Continental Electronics on December 29, 2025, carries a firm fixed-price structure with a $500 ceiling value and performance location in Huntsville, Alabama, extending through the contract completion date of December 28, 2035. Continental Electronics, a Dallas, Texas-based manufacturer of radio and television broadcasting equipment and wireless communications products, brings established expertise in sophisticated electronic components, transmitting equipment, and engineering services developed through prior prime and subcontractor relationships with the U.S. Air Force and other federal defense agencies. The contract structure permits the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue multiple orders under the flexible IDIQ mechanism, with work performed across various security classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances and conducted at multiple performance locations as determined by subsequent delivery order issuances.