Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG438

Afglobe Communications Inc., a small disadvantaged woman-owned business headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract represents a full and open competition vehicle with no set-asides, structured to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements across both classified and unclassified programs. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts to develop an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks.

Work under the SHIELD IDIQ will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to address air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats. An initial delivery order valued at $500 was issued on December 29, 2025, with performance location in Huntsville, Alabama, under a firm fixed price arrangement. Individual task and delivery orders issued under this vehicle will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and may require appropriate facility clearances for classified work, providing the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities with a flexible contracting mechanism to rapidly procure advanced defense capabilities over the 10-year performance period.