Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG405

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to ATC-NY Inc. valued at $151 billion with a period of performance through December 28, 2035. The contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, was awarded on January 21, 2026, with no set-aside designation, allowing full and open competition among qualifying contractors. ATC-NY Inc., a small disadvantaged business based in Ithaca, New York, and subsidiary of Architecture Technology Inc., will serve as one of multiple awardees under this enterprise-wide contracting vehicle. The contract structure enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task orders and delivery orders for an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple security domains to provide continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task orders potentially utilizing various contract types and classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The initial task order issued to ATC-NY Inc., the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Initial Order, is a Firm Fixed Price delivery order valued at five hundred dollars with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, reflecting the commencement of this significant long-term investment in homeland defense capabilities.