Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DG465

ACE Joint Venture LLC has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract was awarded on December 29, 2025, with no small business set-aside applied. As an SBA Certified 8A Joint Venture, ACE Joint Venture LLC will serve as one of multiple prime contractors under this vehicle, which is structured to support both classified and unclassified defense programs. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required for contract performance. The initial delivery order, valued at $500, is the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Initial Order, with performance in Huntsville, Alabama, utilizing firm fixed price pricing.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense system procurement designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. Work areas encompass 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, and cruise missile threats across all phases of flight. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with task and delivery orders potentially classified at various security levels and issued across multiple NAICS codes. This 10-year contracting vehicle was competitively awarded under full and open competition with no set-asides, enabling MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a single flexible contract mechanism for integrated homeland defense capabilities.