Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG366

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Istream Solutions, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business specializing in information technology services and solutions. The contract, valued at $151 billion with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. This IDV employs full and open competition with no set-asides and allows for multiple awards to all qualifying offerors meeting responsibility, technical acceptability, and fair and reasonable pricing standards. The contract encompasses a broad range of work areas including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization initiatives addressing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles.

The initial delivery order issued to Istream Solutions, Inc., effective December 29, 2025, carries a nominal ceiling value of five hundred dollars and is structured as a firm fixed price contract with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The SHIELD IDIQ vehicle is architected to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains while leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This procurement mechanism is designed to provide the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities with a flexible, rapid-ordering capability for multi-layered defense requirements, with individual task and delivery orders potentially utilizing various contract types, multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, and security classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.