Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG229

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Highbury Defense Group, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) initiative. This ten-year contract, valued at $151 billion through December 28, 2035, was procured through full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract establishes a flexible procurement vehicle enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue task and delivery orders for an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, and other advanced aerial threats across all phases of flight.

The initial task order awarded to Highbury Defense Group on December 29, 2025, valued at five hundred dollars, is designated as the SHIELD Initial Order with performance in Huntsville, Alabama, and completion by December 28, 2035. The contract structure accommodates multiple contract types and NAICS codes with firm fixed price and other pricing methodologies, supporting both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains. The procurement leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a comprehensive, layered defense contracting solution. All qualifying offerors meeting responsibility, technical acceptability, and fair and reasonable pricing criteria were eligible for multiple award consideration under this enterprise-wide contracting mechanism, representing a significant long-term investment in homeland defense capabilities.