Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG240

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, awarded by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to Zimmerman Associates, Inc. on December 29, 2025, represents a $151 billion, 10-year defense procurement vehicle designed to support advanced multi-domain defense system development and operations. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The SHIELD IDIQ is structured to facilitate rapid task order issuance across multiple work categories and security classification levels, leveraging cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight.

The initial task order awarded on December 29, 2025, carries a firm fixed-price valuation of $500 and extends through December 28, 2035, with primary performance location in Huntsville, Alabama. This multiple award contract vehicle was awarded through full and open competition with no set-aside designations, enabling the government to issue orders at varying classification levels to qualified contractors meeting System for Award Management (SAM) registration requirements. While Zimmerman Associates, Inc. is primarily recognized for information management and library support services across civilian and defense agencies, its selection as a prime contractor on this comprehensive defense IDIQ suggests expanded capabilities or a specialized role within the broader contracting ecosystem designed to support the nation's multi-layered homeland and force protection objectives over the contract's 10-year period of performance.