Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD)

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Master IDIQ contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense acquisition vehicle established by the Missile Defense Agency to procure advanced systems and services capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related services across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. Work performed under this vehicle addresses threats emanating from ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight, leveraging emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

The provided materials do not include detailed information regarding awarded task orders, specific contractor performance data, typical contract values and durations for individual orders, or patterns of prime contractor awards. The Master IDIQ structure provides a shared ceiling of $151 billion across a ten-year period of performance through December 28, 2035, with individual task and delivery orders issued under various contract types spanning multiple North American Industry Classification System codes. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs requiring appropriate facility clearances, and the government utilized full and open competition without set-aside designations during the multiple award process, indicating all qualified contractors meeting responsibility and technical acceptability criteria were eligible for award.