Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG398

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Audacious Inquiry LLC on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This defense procurement vehicle carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. The contract was issued without set-aside restrictions and utilizes full and open competition, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for task orders. The underlying solicitation, which originated as a pre-solicitation notice posted May 21, 2025, sought capabilities to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts targeting advanced threats including ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, cruise missiles, and other aerial attacks across all phases of flight. Work will leverage emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with performance classified at various security levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The initial task order issued to Audacious Inquiry carries a ceiling value of $500 and has a firm fixed price contract type, with performance location identified as Huntsville, Alabama. This IDIQ structure enables MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue multiple delivery orders under a single flexible contracting mechanism to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements.