Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG431

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Evanhoe & Associates Inc. (doing business as Aidc Solutions) for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, valued at $151 billion with a completion date of December 28, 2035. This defense contract, awarded December 29, 2025, with no set-aside designation, supports the development and procurement of 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 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, addressing ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, with the initial delivery order valued at $500 under firm fixed-price terms.

The SHIELD contract represents a comprehensive, long-term contracting vehicle structured to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue multiple task orders for integrated homeland defense capabilities. The procurement utilizes full and open competition under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii), allowing awards to all responsible offerors submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing. The contract vehicle supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Evanhoe & Associates Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Xenia, Ohio, with established experience delivering information technology solutions and systems engineering services to federal defense and civilian agencies, is positioned to support the government's multi-layered defense requirements through this flexible contracting mechanism.