Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG201

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This $151 billion contract, awarded on December 29, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, represents a 10-year strategic investment in advanced multi-domain defense capabilities. The contract is structured as full and open competition with no set-asides, enabling the government to leverage multiple contractors for rapid task and delivery order issuance across a flexible contracting mechanism. Barrow Wise Consulting, an SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business, will provide comprehensive materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support contract performance at the primary place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama.

The SHIELD contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts to deliver an integrated defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The procurement addresses national defense requirements by providing layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats across all flight phases, while leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital engineering architectures. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified work across multiple security domains and NAICS codes, with individual task orders utilizing various contract types and potentially requiring facility security clearances. The initial delivery order under this contract, valued at five hundred dollars with firm fixed price terms, was issued on December 29, 2025, establishing the foundation for subsequent task orders supporting MDA and other Department of Defense entities' multi-layered defense requirements.