Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG349

Rothe Development, Inc., a SBA-certified women-owned small business, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. The SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense) IDIQ contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to provide advanced capabilities for detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains, including protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

An initial delivery order under the contract, valued at five hundred dollars with firm fixed price terms, was issued on December 29, 2025, for the SHIELD initial order with performance through December 28, 2035. The place of performance is identified as Huntsville, Alabama, a significant center for Missile Defense Agency operations and defense technology development. As the prime contractor, Rothe Development, Inc. shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to execute task and delivery orders under this IDIQ vehicle. This contract vehicle positions the Missile Defense Agency to rapidly issue orders across multiple NAICS codes and contract types, with individual task orders potentially requiring different classification levels and appropriate facility clearances, thereby establishing a flexible long-term contracting mechanism to support the nation's layered defense requirements.