Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG271

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems L.P. (doing business as Aeromet) and other qualifying contractors on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This defense contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and extends through December 28, 2035, with no small business set-aside designation. The contract supports the development, production, and sustainment of an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. The scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity capabilities, and modernization efforts utilizing advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.

L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems L.P., a subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies, Inc. and based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was selected as one of the multiple awardees based on its demonstrated technical capabilities and fair and reasonable pricing under full and open competition. The initial delivery order under this contract, titled the SHIELD Initial Order, was awarded on the same date with a firm fixed-price ceiling value of five hundred dollars and performance location in Huntsville, Alabama. L3Harris brings significant relevant experience to this effort through prior Missile Defense Agency contracts totaling over $330 million, including previous indefinite delivery vehicle awards for airborne sensor services, mission execution support, and technical assistance related to missile defense operations and system improvements.