Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG417

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to DPRA Incorporated, a small disadvantaged business environmental consulting firm, with an overall ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The award date was December 29, 2025, with no set-aside designation applied. This contract vehicle, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement designed to support national defense objectives through research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract will facilitate the detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including threats from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work under this IDIQ will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, the location of MDA's primary operations center.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ framework, individual delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and security classification levels, with the initial delivery order to DPRA valued at $500 (firm fixed price) for the SHIELD initial order, issued December 29, 2025, with performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract solicitation, posted May 21, 2025, with a due date of September 15, 2025, utilized full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing all qualified contractors registered in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) to compete for multiple awards. The structure enables MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, positioning SHIELD as a flexible long-term contracting solution supporting both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains.