Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG409

North Wind Systems LLC, doing business as Calspan Systems Corp, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a comprehensive multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. This multiple-award IDIQ vehicle was awarded under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualifying contractors to compete for task orders. North Wind Systems' established expertise in aerospace and defense manufacturing, specialized testing, instrumentation, and engineering services positions the company to provide custom-engineered components and advanced technical support for the SHIELD program's requirements.

The initial task order, awarded on December 29, 2025, was issued as a firm fixed-price delivery order with a nominal ceiling of five hundred dollars for the SHIELD initial order, with performance through December 28, 2035. Place of performance is designated as Huntsville, Alabama 35898. The contract will support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. As a small business manufacturer with demonstrated capabilities in hypersonic testing, specialized aerospace components, and complex engineering services developed through prior work with the Naval Sea Systems Command, Army Research Development and Engineering Command, Air Force, and NASA, North Wind Systems is positioned to contribute materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support the nation's multi-layered defense objectives under this enterprise-wide contracting mechanism.