Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG276

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Arservices, LIMITED on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition contract, utilizing no set-aside designation, establishes a comprehensive contracting vehicle designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract supports national defense objectives by procuring 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 across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and security classification levels.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ structure, the government intends to issue task and delivery orders utilizing various contract types and pricing arrangements to support both classified and unclassified programs. The initial task order awarded to Arservices on December 29, 2025, valued at $500 with firm fixed price terms, is titled "Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Initial Order" and is located in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract vehicle leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide continuous, layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight. As a management, professional, and technology consulting services provider and certified small disadvantaged business, Arservices will deliver necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance in accordance with order terms under this 10-year strategic defense contracting mechanism.