Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG137

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to DQ Inc., an SBA Certified 8A Program Participant and Women-Owned Small Business, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion over a 10-year period of performance through December 28, 2035, awarded on December 29, 2025, with no set-aside designation. The solicitation indicates that the government intends to award to all qualifying offerors submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing under full and open competition. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and security classification levels.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract is 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 threat domains. The system will provide layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and pricing mechanisms, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The initial delivery order issued to DQ Inc. is valued at $500 and specifies a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, serving as the foundation for this long-term strategic defense procurement vehicle supporting national defense objectives.