Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG253

Foreign Resource Development Associates LLC (FRDA) was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This is a full and open competition vehicle with no set-asides designated. The contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), is structured 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 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 and advanced aerial attacks throughout all phases of flight.

An initial delivery order was issued concurrently with the IDIQ award on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed-price structure and a nominal ceiling value of $500, with performance through December 28, 2035, located in Huntsville, Alabama. The SHIELD IDIQ represents a significant long-term investment structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders under this vehicle will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes, with resultant orders potentially issued at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. This contracting mechanism is designed to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a flexible, enterprise-wide vehicle to address multi-layered defense requirements.