Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG408

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Vadum Inc., a small business technology development firm headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition contract, awarded without set-asides on December 29, 2025, establishes a comprehensive contracting vehicle under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system. The contract authorizes Vadum Inc. to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to deliver research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts supporting homeland and forward-deployed defense objectives.

The SHIELD contract scope encompasses detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization capabilities against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile flight and other advanced aerial attacks. Work will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task orders utilizing various contract types and potentially involving multiple classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The initial task order, awarded December 29, 2025, was issued under a Firm Fixed Price delivery order structure with a $500 ceiling value and a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, supporting MDA's multi-layered defense requirements over the 10-year base ordering period and optional ordering periods.