Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG194

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Axiom Space Inc. with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, which represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allies. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing multiple qualified contractors to compete for task orders. Work under this vehicle encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and capabilities spanning all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. The contract structure permits individual task and delivery orders to be issued at various classification levels and across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with the vehicle designed to support both classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

As a prime contractor, Axiom Space Inc., a Houston, Texas-based commercial space company, will deliver services and capabilities under this multiple-award IDIQ vehicle in support of the Missile Defense Agency's evolving defense requirements. While Axiom Space's historical federal contract portfolio primarily focuses on commercial human spaceflight services and extravehicular activity demonstrations for NASA, selection under the SHIELD IDIQ indicates the company's expanded capability to support advanced defense and space-based capabilities. The contract award date of January 21, 2026, follows the pre-solicitation notice posted May 21, 2025, with the final Request for Proposal released in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025. All contractors participating in this vehicle must maintain current registration in the System for Award Management and possess appropriate facility clearances for work performed at various classification levels. The 10-year ordering period provides the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities with a flexible contracting mechanism to rapidly issue task orders addressing the nation's multi-layered homeland defense requirements.