Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG262

In-Depth Engineering Corporation, a minority-owned, veteran-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) initiative, represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle structured to support research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity modernization efforts. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing the government to rapidly issue orders for detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contract is designed to accommodate both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

The initial task order issued under this IDIQ vehicle is the SHIELD Initial Order, awarded December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of five hundred dollars and firm fixed price contract type, with place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. While this inaugural delivery order carries a nominal value, the contract structure enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue multiple task orders across a 10-year period of performance consisting of a base ordering period and optional ordering periods. The underlying IDIQ contract was released following a pre-solicitation notice posted May 21, 2025, with the final Request for Proposal issued in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, requiring all potential offerors to maintain current System for Award Management registration to participate in this significant long-term investment in the nation's layered defense requirements.