Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG371

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract represents a $151 billion, multiple-award procurement vehicle issued by the Missile Defense Agency to provide advanced, multi-domain defense capabilities protecting the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. Awarded to Kitty Hawk Technologies, LLC on December 29, 2025, with performance extending through December 28, 2035, this full and open competition contract utilizes firm fixed-price and other pricing structures with no small business set-asides. The contract scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and disruptive technology development to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats across air, missile, space, and cyber domains throughout all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. Kitty Hawk Technologies, a veteran-owned small business and service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, brings substantial experience in systems engineering, warfare analysis, digital modeling, and technical service delivery to this arrangement, with demonstrated past performance on complex defense and aerospace initiatives.

The initial delivery order issued under the SHIELD contract is valued at five hundred dollars and is designated as the SHIELD Initial Order, with performance located in Huntsville, Alabama. As a multiple-award indefinite delivery vehicle structured to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders, the contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support both classified and unclassified national defense programs. Individual orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and security classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances and security infrastructure, positioning this procurement as a comprehensive, long-term contracting solution for the nation's layered missile defense and homeland protection requirements.