Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG166

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to TLN Worldwide Enterprises, Inc. (UEI: HJBTCBQ9FT95) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support the nation's layered homeland defense strategy. Under this IDV, the contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to deliver advanced defense system capabilities encompassing research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards, and task orders will be issued at varying classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The initial delivery order, awarded concurrently on December 29, 2025, is the SHIELD Initial Order valued at $500 with a firm fixed price structure and a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract will support MDA's objective to procure multi-domain defense capabilities capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as advanced aerial attacks. The contract vehicle is structured to leverage disruptive technologies and modern engineering approaches, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, enabling MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task orders across multiple NAICS codes under one flexible contracting mechanism. As a woman-owned, economically disadvantaged small business certified in the HUBZone program, TLN Worldwide Enterprises brings established expertise in technical services and federal procurement, positioning it to execute the complex integrated professional and technical services required under this strategic ten-year defense initiative.