Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG429

Ensemble Space Labs Inc. (UEI: PLQ1EWNMSEA8) was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract represents a 10-year enterprise-wide contracting vehicle designed to support the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, which aims to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing multiple qualified contractors to compete for task orders. Work scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains, including protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all phases of flight.

The initial task order issued under this IDIQ contract, valued at $500 (representing the baseline ordering action), is a firm fixed price delivery order with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract structure is designed to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual subsequent task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and pricing arrangements, with work potentially requiring appropriate facility clearances at different classification levels. This procurement reflects a significant long-term strategic investment by the Missile Defense Agency to establish a flexible contracting mechanism enabling rapid issuance of orders across the comprehensive, layered defense requirements necessary to support national defense objectives.