Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG230

Loft Orbital Federal, LLC was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a comprehensive multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract encompasses a broad spectrum of defense-related activities including research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and disruptive technology initiatives. The procurement is structured to address air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This is a full and open competition vehicle with no set-aside designations, enabling the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue delivery orders under a single flexible contracting mechanism.

The initial delivery order under this IDIQ, issued on December 29, 2025, is a Firm Fixed Price task order valued at five hundred dollars with a completion date of December 28, 2035, to be performed in Huntsville, Alabama. This inaugural order pertains to the SHIELD Initial Order and establishes the baseline for subsequent task orders that will be issued throughout the contract period of performance. Individual delivery orders under this IDIQ vehicle will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and may involve classified work requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract structure enables the MDA to efficiently procure capabilities across multiple security domains and supports both classified and unclassified programs, positioning SHIELD as a strategic long-term investment in layered homeland defense capabilities spanning the ten-year ordering period.