Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG332

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Albedo Space Corp. and other qualifying contractors on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract vehicle, valued at $151 billion with a period of performance through December 28, 2035, represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement mechanism designed to support research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization of advanced defense systems. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, enabling the government to rapidly issue task orders for capabilities addressing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work will incorporate advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with task orders issued at various classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances and spanning multiple North American Industry Classification System codes.

Albedo Space Corp., a for-profit manufacturer based in Sheridan, Colorado, has been selected as one of multiple awardees under the SHIELD IDIQ contract. The company's prior federal contract experience demonstrates expertise in providing imagery and data products for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions, including thermal infrared imagery, tactical imagery, and Commercial National Image Interpretability Rating Scale products. The initial task order, awarded on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of five hundred dollars, is being performed in Huntsville, Alabama, and extends through the contract completion date. As a multiple award vehicle, the SHIELD IDIQ is structured to enable both the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to leverage a single flexible contracting mechanism for diverse defense modernization and capability development requirements across the enterprise.