Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG197

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to First Line Technology LLC on January 21, 2026, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and performance period through December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, represents a 10-year enterprise-wide contracting vehicle utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract aims to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight.

Individual task and delivery orders under this IDIQ vehicle will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and will be issued at different classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains. The contract structure leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support rapid order issuance across multiple Department of Defense entities. First Line Technology LLC, a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, specializes in chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense equipment and emergency preparedness systems. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to contract performance in accordance with order terms, with performance occurring at locations to be determined through individual task order issuance.