Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG263

Meridian Systematics LLC was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract, awarded December 29, 2025, establishes a comprehensive contracting vehicle for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, which procures advanced multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing the government to issue multiple task orders to qualifying contractors who submitted technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing. The initial task order, valued at five hundred dollars and firm fixed price, was issued December 29, 2025, with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract supports national defense objectives by enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly procure capabilities across research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with work potentially requiring appropriate facility clearances and security classifications to support the nation's layered homeland and force defense requirements across the ten-year performance period.