Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG307

Analytic Folk, LLC has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), a defense agency within the Department of Defense, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations and utilizes firm fixed price and other pricing mechanisms across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes. The SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense) IDIQ contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs and enable rapid issuance of task and delivery orders across multiple security domains. An initial delivery order valued at $500 with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, was issued on December 29, 2025, coinciding with the contract award date.

The SHIELD IDIQ procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partner nations. Contracted work encompasses research and development, prototyping of disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design and development, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity solutions, and modernization efforts across all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. The contract vehicle leverages emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide layered protection capabilities. This represents a comprehensive long-term contracting mechanism designed to consolidate MDA and broader Department of Defense ordering requirements under a flexible vehicle supporting national defense objectives through continuous multi-layered protection architecture.