Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG120

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Coldquanta, Inc. (doing business as Infleqtion) on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This defense-focused indefinite delivery contract, valued at $151 billion with a ten-year period of performance through December 28, 2035, was awarded with no set-aside designation and represents full and open competition among qualifying contractors. Coldquanta, Inc., a small business based in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in quantum information products and advanced quantum technologies, will provide materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support the MDA's multi-domain defense objectives. The contractor's expertise in quantum sensing, quantum communications, quantum computing, and position/navigation/timing technologies aligns with the government's requirement for cutting-edge capabilities across these critical domains.

The SHIELD contract procures an advanced, integrated defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts targeting ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats across all phases of flight. The initial task order, issued December 29, 2025, for the SHIELD Initial Order is valued at $500 and is scheduled for performance in Huntsville, Alabama through December 28, 2035, utilizing firm fixed-price delivery order pricing. The contract vehicle is structured to leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with anticipated orders spanning multiple classification levels and security domains to support both classified and unclassified defense programs.