Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG320

The Missile Defense Agency has established a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle valued at $151 billion with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), 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, and allied nations. The contract encompasses a broad range of deliverables including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Awarded on December 29, 2025, following a pre-solicitation notice posted May 21, 2025, and draft solicitation released in late July 2025, the contract utilized full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing all qualified contractors meeting responsibility and technical acceptability standards to compete for multiple awards.

The initial task order issued under the SHIELD IDIQ, valued at $500 on a firm fixed price basis, was awarded simultaneously with the master contract. Work is to be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, with the contract structured to support both classified and unclassified programs requiring facility clearances at various classification levels. The contract vehicle leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a flexible contracting mechanism enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue delivery orders across multiple NAICS codes. This ten-year enterprise-wide contracting solution represents a significant long-term investment in layered homeland defense capabilities against evolving multi-domain threats.