Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG309

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Ekin Solutions Inc. on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a ten-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations and is structured to support both classified and unclassified defense programs across multiple security domains. The contract was awarded pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii), which allows award to all responsible offerors submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing. Ekin Solutions, an 8(a) certified small disadvantaged minority-owned business headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, was selected as one of multiple awardees eligible to compete for task orders under this enterprise-wide contracting vehicle.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. Individual task orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and may require appropriate facility clearances for classified work. The initial delivery order issued to Ekin Solutions on December 29, 2025, valued at $500 on a firm fixed price basis, supports SHIELD efforts with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support national defense objectives.