Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG393

Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery contract by the Missile Defense Agency with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, known as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, was awarded on December 29, 2025, without set-aside designations through full and open competition. The contract mechanism enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue task and delivery orders for advanced, multi-domain defense system capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains.

The SHIELD contract encompasses a comprehensive scope of work including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts addressing threats from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles across all phases of flight. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and may be classified at different security levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances. Work is expected to leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. An initial delivery order for the SHIELD program was issued on December 29, 2025, with a value of five hundred dollars and performance location in Huntsville, Alabama, with completion targeted for December 28, 2035. As a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, the awardee brings extensive experience in delivering sophisticated electronic components, imaging systems, advanced sensing technologies, and specialized engineering solutions across defense and civilian government sectors.