Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG141

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Tendeg LLC and other qualifying contractors under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This $151 billion contract, with a performance period extending through December 28, 2035, was awarded on December 29, 2025, following a pre-solicitation notice posted in May 2025. The contract utilized full and open competition with no set-aside designations, permitting all responsible offerors with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing to receive awards. Tendeg LLC, a specialized developer of deployable space antennas for small satellites and CubeSats, was selected as one of the prime contractors to support this enterprise-wide contracting vehicle.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ contract, the prime contractors shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to deliver advanced multi-domain defense system capabilities. The contract scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts supporting detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. Work will address ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats as well as advanced aerial attacks, leveraging emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, with individual task and delivery orders to be issued across various contract types and NAICS codes, requiring appropriate facility clearances based on classification levels.