Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG378

Atea Technologies, LLC, a tribally owned, minority-owned small disadvantaged business and SBA Certified 8(a) Program Participant headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on January 21, 2026. This child contract, valued at $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, supports the MDA's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program—a comprehensive, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile trajectories. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-asides and anticipates issuing multiple task and delivery orders utilizing various contract types and potentially requiring facility clearances across multiple security classification levels. As a multiple-award vehicle, the contract permits the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders for research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related services.

Under this IDIQ structure, Atea Technologies will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to contract performance as directed through individual task orders issued by the government. The contractor's established expertise in advanced technical services, modeling, simulation, and instrumentation support for defense and aerospace applications positions it as a strategic technical partner capable of delivering specialized services across the SHIELD program portfolio. Work will be performed in accordance with task order specifications, with performance locations to be designated through individual orders. Atea Technologies' existing track record includes delivery of hypersonic technology instrumentation, telemetry and range evaluation systems support, and research, development, test, and evaluation services, primarily conducted at Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California, under a related parent IDIQ valued at $78.42 million with the Naval Air Warfare Center, demonstrating the contractor's capability to execute complex, classified defense system requirements within the broader homeland and national defense mission.