Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG363

Expedition Technology, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), procures an advanced multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the 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 targeting threats from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all phases of flight. The award utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, permitting multiple contractors to receive awards under the flexible IDIQ structure.

The initial task order issued under this contract, the SHIELD Initial Order, was awarded on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed price of five hundred dollars and performance at Huntsville, Alabama through December 28, 2035. Individual task and delivery orders under the broader IDIQ will employ various contract types and pricing mechanisms, including firm fixed price and time-and-materials arrangements, across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes. The contract vehicle is designed to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This procurement represents a comprehensive, long-term contracting solution consolidating the MDA's and other Department of Defense entities' multi-layered defense requirements under a single flexible mechanism.