Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG173

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Cherokee Nation Management & Consulting, L.L.C. on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support the nation's layered homeland and deployed force protection objectives. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing the government to issue multiple task and delivery orders for 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 SHIELD contract encompasses advanced capabilities spanning detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, with particular emphasis on leveraging emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. An initial delivery order valued at $500 under firm fixed price terms was awarded on December 29, 2025, with performance to be executed in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract structure accommodates classified and unclassified work across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and security clearance levels, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a single flexible contracting mechanism for both near-term and long-term defense modernization requirements.