Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG434

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Canopy Aerospace, Inc., a minority-owned, veteran-owned small disadvantaged business based in Littleton, Colorado, on December 29, 2025. This contract, designated Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and extends through December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance with a base ordering period and optional ordering periods. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations, permitting multiple qualified contractors to receive awards. The initial task order issued under this IDIQ is valued at $500 and covers work performed in Huntsville, Alabama, with performance on a firm fixed price basis.

The SHIELD IDIQ procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with orders structured across multiple classification levels and security domains. Canopy Aerospace's core competency in thermal protection systems, reusable heat shields, and advanced aerospace technologies positions the contractor to support MDA's hypersonic and space defense modernization objectives, building upon the company's established track record of delivering critical technologies through prior Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs with the Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA.