Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG150

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Acqcentric, Inc., a woman-owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, on December 29, 2025. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract, with a $151 billion ceiling and a 10-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, represents a comprehensive, full and open competition procurement vehicle with no set-asides designated. Acqcentric will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support advanced multi-domain defense system development, including research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, and test and evaluation activities. The contract will enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders across multiple functional areas and security classification levels, supporting both classified and unclassified programs.

The SHIELD contract procurement focuses on developing and delivering an integrated, multi-layered defense capability designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allies across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. Contracted work encompasses disruptive technologies, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple industry classification codes and may require facility clearances appropriate to the security classification level of specific work requirements, positioning the SHIELD IDIQ as a flexible, long-term contracting mechanism to address the nation's evolving multi-layered defense requirements.