Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG175

Criterion Systems, L.L.C., a tribally-owned and minority-owned small business, has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency valued at $151 billion with a performance period through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition contract, awarded without set-asides on December 29, 2025, establishes a comprehensive contracting vehicle for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract will procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The prime contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support these defense objectives across a 10-year ordering period.

The scope of work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued at varying classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances, and will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. An initial delivery order for the SHIELD program valued at five hundred dollars was issued on December 29, 2025, with performance conducted in Huntsville, Alabama under firm fixed-price pricing. The contract structure allows the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, positioning SHIELD as a significant long-term investment in multi-layered homeland defense capabilities.