Missile Defense Agency (MDA) SHIELD Multiple Award IDIQ Contract

DRAFT REQUEST FOR PROPSAL

DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Approved for Public Release 25-MDA-12155 (24 Jul 25)

This is not a request for proposal.  The DRAFT documents and language within this DRAFT RFP are subject to change. Should any language in the DRAFT documents conflict with the final issued RFP, the final RFP shall take precedence.

The resultant contract may issue task and delivery orders at different classification levels. Accordingly, a company’s requisite ability to fulfil government requirements at the various classification levels is dependent on the associated government permissions it must possess to work in such environments (i.e. a Facility Clearance or FCL for classified work). Separate and apart from this solicitation the Government is tentatively planning an informational briefing, generally, on the process for granting such approvals. As this is an agency wide initiative details on such a briefing will be communicated in a different forum.

All questions or concerns regarding any aspect of this draft solicitation shall be submitted using attachment DRFP-01 and sent to mda.schriever.cts.mbx.shield-idiq@mail.mil no later than 11:59 pm Central Time on 18 August 2025.

GENERAL INFORMATION

This is not a request for proposal.  This notice of contract action does not constitute a solicitation, nor does it constitute a request for proposals.

This pre-solicitation notice is posted to publicize the Missile Defense Agency’s intent to issue a solicitation for a Multiple Award Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract using a full and open competition. As a long-planned strategy, SHIELD will allow MDA and other DoD entities to rapidly issue orders under one enterprise flexible vehicle. The proposed contract vehicle anticipates a period of performance of 10 years, which will consist of a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods. The anticipated stated maximum value is $151 Billion. Individual order awards will consist of various contract types across various NAICS codes.

Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.304(c)(1)(ii), the Government intends to award to each and all qualifying offerors. A qualifying offeror is an Offeror that is determined to be a responsible source, submits a technically acceptable proposal that conforms to the requirements of the solicitation, and the Contracting Officer has no reason to believe they would be likely to offer other than fair and reasonable pricing. All offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (www.sam.gov) to be eligible for contract award.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

The MDA requires an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, its deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. This contract will support national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector – land, sea, air, space, or cyberspace. This effort supports services and supplies of both classified and unclassified programs on multiple security domains.

This contract will provide rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled applications where pertinent, and maximizing use of digital engineering, open systems architectures, model-based systems engineering, and agile processes in the acquisition, development, fielding, and sustainment of these capabilities.

Anticipated work areas for the IDIQ contract include defense applications related to:

• Science and Technology (S&T) 
• Research and Development (R&D) 
• Prototyping 
• Studies, Demonstrations, Testing of prototypes 
• Disruptive Technologies 
• Experimentation 
• Architecture Development 
• Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis 
• Systems Engineering 
• Weapon Design and Development 
• Integration and Assembly 
• Production and Fielding 
• Test and Evaluation (T&E) 
• Operation and Sustainment 
• Modernization 
• Hardware and Software Modifications 
• Data Mining/Collection/Analysis 
• RDT&E/Mission-Related Information Technology 
• Cybersecurity 

The final solicitation is anticipated for release 4QFY2025.

DRAFT REQUEST FOR PROPSAL

DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Approved for Public Release 25-MDA-12155 (24 Jul 25)

This is not a request for proposal.  The DRAFT documents and language within this DRAFT RFP are subject to change. Should any language in the DRAFT documents conflict with the final issued RFP, the final RFP shall take precedence.

The resultant contract may issue task and delivery orders at different classification levels. Accordingly, a company’s requisite ability to fulfil government requirements at the various classification levels is dependent on the associated government permissions it must possess to work in such environments (i.e. a Facility Clearance or FCL for classified work). Separate and apart from this solicitation the Government is tentatively planning an informational briefing, generally, on the process for granting such approvals. As this is an agency wide initiative details on such a briefing will be communicated in a different forum.

All questions or concerns regarding any aspect of this draft solicitation shall be submitted using attachment DRFP-01 and sent to mda.schriever.cts.mbx.shield-idiq@mail.mil no later than 11:59 pm Central Time on 11 August 2025.

GENERAL INFORMATION

This is not a request for proposal. It is anticipated that a draft solicitation will be issued 4QFY2025 in electronic format only. This notice of contract action does not constitute a solicitation, nor does it constitute a request for proposals.

This pre-solicitation notice is posted to publicize the Missile Defense Agency’s intent to issue a solicitation for a Multiple Award Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract using a full and open competition. As a long-planned strategy, SHIELD will allow MDA and other DoD entities to rapidly issue orders under one enterprise flexible vehicle. The proposed contract vehicle anticipates a period of performance of 10 years, which will consist of a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods. The anticipated stated maximum value is $151 Billion. Individual order awards will consist of various contract types across various NAICS codes.

Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.304(c)(1)(ii), the Government intends to award to each and all qualifying offerors. A qualifying offeror is an Offeror that is determined to be a responsible source, submits a technically acceptable proposal that conforms to the requirements of the solicitation, and the Contracting Officer has no reason to believe they would be likely to offer other than fair and reasonable pricing. All offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (www.sam.gov) to be eligible for contract award.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

The MDA requires an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, its deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. This contract will support national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector – land, sea, air, space, or cyberspace. This effort supports services and supplies of both classified and unclassified programs on multiple security domains.

This contract will provide rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled applications where pertinent, and maximizing use of digital engineering, open systems architectures, model-based systems engineering, and agile processes in the acquisition, development, fielding, and sustainment of these capabilities.

Anticipated work areas for the IDIQ contract include defense applications related to:

• Science and Technology (S&T) 
• Research and Development (R&D) 
• Prototyping 
• Studies, Demonstrations, Testing of prototypes 
• Disruptive Technologies 
• Experimentation 
• Architecture Development 
• Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis 
• Systems Engineering 
• Weapon Design and Development 
• Integration and Assembly 
• Production and Fielding 
• Test and Evaluation (T&E) 
• Operation and Sustainment 
• Modernization 
• Hardware and Software Modifications 
• Data Mining/Collection/Analysis 
• RDT&E/Mission-Related Information Technology 
• Cybersecurity 

The final solicitation is anticipated for release 4QFY2025.

DRAFT REQUEST FOR PROPSAL

DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Approved for Public Release 25-MDA-12155 (24 Jul 25)

This is not a request for proposal.  The DRAFT documents and language within this DRAFT RFP are subject to change. Should any language in the DRAFT documents conflict with the final issued RFP, the final RFP shall take precedence.

The resultant contract may issue task and delivery orders at different classification levels. Accordingly, a company’s requisite ability to fulfil government requirements at the various classification levels is dependent on the associated government permissions it must possess to work in such environments (i.e. a Facility Clearance or FCL for classified work). Separate and apart from this solicitation the Government is tentatively planning an informational briefing, generally, on the process for granting such approvals. As this is an agency wide initiative details on such a briefing will be communicated in a different forum.

All questions or concerns regarding any aspect of this draft solicitation shall be submitted using attachment DRFP-01 and sent to mda.schriever.cts.mbx.shield-idiq@mail.mil no later than 11:59 pm Central Time on 08 August 2025.

GENERAL INFORMATION

This is not a request for proposal. It is anticipated that a draft solicitation will be issued 4QFY2025 in electronic format only. This notice of contract action does not constitute a solicitation, nor does it constitute a request for proposals.

This pre-solicitation notice is posted to publicize the Missile Defense Agency’s intent to issue a solicitation for a Multiple Award Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract using a full and open competition. As a long-planned strategy, SHIELD will allow MDA and other DoD entities to rapidly issue orders under one enterprise flexible vehicle. The proposed contract vehicle anticipates a period of performance of 10 years, which will consist of a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods. The anticipated stated maximum value is $151 Billion. Individual order awards will consist of various contract types across various NAICS codes.

Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.304(c)(1)(ii), the Government intends to award to each and all qualifying offerors. A qualifying offeror is an Offeror that is determined to be a responsible source, submits a technically acceptable proposal that conforms to the requirements of the solicitation, and the Contracting Officer has no reason to believe they would be likely to offer other than fair and reasonable pricing. All offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (www.sam.gov) to be eligible for contract award.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

The MDA requires an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, its deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. This contract will support national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector – land, sea, air, space, or cyberspace. This effort supports services and supplies of both classified and unclassified programs on multiple security domains.

This contract will provide rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled applications where pertinent, and maximizing use of digital engineering, open systems architectures, model-based systems engineering, and agile processes in the acquisition, development, fielding, and sustainment of these capabilities.

Anticipated work areas for the IDIQ contract include defense applications related to:

• Science and Technology (S&T) 
• Research and Development (R&D) 
• Prototyping 
• Studies, Demonstrations, Testing of prototypes 
• Disruptive Technologies 
• Experimentation 
• Architecture Development 
• Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis 
• Systems Engineering 
• Weapon Design and Development 
• Integration and Assembly 
• Production and Fielding 
• Test and Evaluation (T&E) 
• Operation and Sustainment 
• Modernization 
• Hardware and Software Modifications 
• Data Mining/Collection/Analysis 
• RDT&E/Mission-Related Information Technology 
• Cybersecurity 

The final solicitation is anticipated for release 4QFY2025.

DRAFT REQUEST FOR PROPSAL

DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Approved for Public Release 25-MDA-12155 (24 Jul 25)

This is not a request for proposal.  The DRAFT documents and language within this DRAFT RFP are subject to change. Should any language in the DRAFT documents conflict with the final issued RFP, the final RFP shall take precedence.

The resultant contract may issue task and delivery orders at different classification levels. Accordingly, a company’s requisite ability to fulfil government requirements at the various classification levels is dependent on the associated government permissions it must possess to work in such environments (i.e. a Facility Clearance or FCL for classified work). Separate and apart from this solicitation the Government is tentatively planning an informational briefing, generally, on the process for granting such approvals. As this is an agency wide initiative details on such a briefing will be communicated in a different forum.

All questions or concerns regarding any aspect of this draft solicitation shall be submitted using attachment DRFP-01 and sent to mda.schriever.cts.mbx.shield-idiq@mail.mil no later than 11:59 pm Central Time on 31 July 2025.

GENERAL INFORMATION

This is not a request for proposal. It is anticipated that a draft solicitation will be issued 4QFY2025 in electronic format only. This notice of contract action does not constitute a solicitation, nor does it constitute a request for proposals.

This pre-solicitation notice is posted to publicize the Missile Defense Agency’s intent to issue a solicitation for a Multiple Award Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract using a full and open competition. As a long-planned strategy, SHIELD will allow MDA and other DoD entities to rapidly issue orders under one enterprise flexible vehicle. The proposed contract vehicle anticipates a period of performance of 10 years, which will consist of a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods. The anticipated stated maximum value is $151 Billion. Individual order awards will consist of various contract types across various NAICS codes.

Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.304(c)(1)(ii), the Government intends to award to each and all qualifying offerors. A qualifying offeror is an Offeror that is determined to be a responsible source, submits a technically acceptable proposal that conforms to the requirements of the solicitation, and the Contracting Officer has no reason to believe they would be likely to offer other than fair and reasonable pricing. All offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (www.sam.gov) to be eligible for contract award.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

The MDA requires an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, its deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. This contract will support national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector – land, sea, air, space, or cyberspace. This effort supports services and supplies of both classified and unclassified programs on multiple security domains.

This contract will provide rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled applications where pertinent, and maximizing use of digital engineering, open systems architectures, model-based systems engineering, and agile processes in the acquisition, development, fielding, and sustainment of these capabilities.

Anticipated work areas for the IDIQ contract include defense applications related to:

• Science and Technology (S&T) 
• Research and Development (R&D) 
• Prototyping 
• Studies, Demonstrations, Testing of prototypes 
• Disruptive Technologies 
• Experimentation 
• Architecture Development 
• Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis 
• Systems Engineering 
• Weapon Design and Development 
• Integration and Assembly 
• Production and Fielding 
• Test and Evaluation (T&E) 
• Operation and Sustainment 
• Modernization 
• Hardware and Software Modifications 
• Data Mining/Collection/Analysis 
• RDT&E/Mission-Related Information Technology 
• Cybersecurity 

The final solicitation is anticipated for release 4QFY2025.

GENERAL INFORMATION

This is not a request for proposal. It is anticipated that a draft solicitation will be issued 4QFY2025 in electronic format only. This notice of contract action does not constitute a solicitation, nor does it constitute a request for proposals.

This pre-solicitation notice is posted to publicize the Missile Defense Agency’s intent to issue a solicitation for a Multiple Award Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract using a full and open competition. As a long-planned strategy, SHIELD will allow MDA and other DoD entities to rapidly issue orders under one enterprise flexible vehicle. The proposed contract vehicle anticipates a period of performance of 10 years, which will consist of a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods. The anticipated stated maximum value is $151 Billion. Individual order awards will consist of various contract types across various NAICS codes.

Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.304(c)(1)(ii), the Government intends to award to each and all qualifying offerors. A qualifying offeror is an Offeror that is determined to be a responsible source, submits a technically acceptable proposal that conforms to the requirements of the solicitation, and the Contracting Officer has no reason to believe they would be likely to offer other than fair and reasonable pricing. All offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (www.sam.gov) to be eligible for contract award.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

The MDA requires an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, its deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. This contract will support national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector – land, sea, air, space, or cyberspace. This effort supports services and supplies of both classified and unclassified programs on multiple security domains.

This contract will provide rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled applications where pertinent, and maximizing use of digital engineering, open systems architectures, model-based systems engineering, and agile processes in the acquisition, development, fielding, and sustainment of these capabilities.

Anticipated work areas for the IDIQ contract include defense applications related to:

• Science and Technology (S&T) 
• Research and Development (R&D) 
• Prototyping 
• Studies, Demonstrations, Testing of prototypes 
• Disruptive Technologies 
• Experimentation 
• Architecture Development 
• Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis 
• Systems Engineering 
• Weapon Design and Development 
• Integration and Assembly 
• Production and Fielding 
• Test and Evaluation (T&E) 
• Operation and Sustainment 
• Modernization 
• Hardware and Software Modifications 
• Data Mining/Collection/Analysis 
• RDT&E/Mission-Related Information Technology 
• Cybersecurity 

The final solicitation is anticipated for release 4QFY2025.

GENERAL INFORMATION

This is not a request for proposal. It is anticipated that a draft solicitation will be issued late May 2025 or early June 2025. This notice of contract action does not constitute a solicitation, nor does it constitute a request for proposals.

This pre-solicitation notice is posted to publicize the Missile Defense Agency’s intent to issue a solicitation for a Multiple Award Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract using a full and open competition. As a long-planned strategy, SHIELD will allow MDA and other DoD entities to rapidly issue orders under one enterprise flexible vehicle. The proposed contract vehicle anticipates a period of performance of 10 years, which will consist of a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods. The anticipated stated maximum value is $151 Billion. Individual order awards will consist of various contract types across various NAICS codes.

Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.304(c)(1)(ii), the Government intends to award to each and all qualifying offerors. A qualifying offeror is an Offeror that is determined to be a responsible source, submits a technically acceptable proposal that conforms to the requirements of the solicitation, and the Contracting Officer has no reason to believe they would be likely to offer other than fair and reasonable pricing. All offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (www.sam.gov) to be eligible for contract award.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

The MDA requires an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, its deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. This contract will support national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector – land, sea, air, space, or cyberspace. This effort supports services and supplies of both classified and unclassified programs on multiple security domains.

This contract will provide rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled applications where pertinent, and maximizing use of digital engineering, open systems architectures, model-based systems engineering, and agile processes in the acquisition, development, fielding, and sustainment of these capabilities.

Anticipated work areas for the IDIQ contract include defense applications related to:

• Science and Technology (S&T) 
• Research and Development (R&D) 
• Prototyping 
• Studies, Demonstrations, Testing of prototypes 
• Disruptive Technologies 
• Experimentation 
• Architecture Development 
• Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis 
• Systems Engineering 
• Weapon Design and Development 
• Integration and Assembly 
• Production and Fielding 
• Test and Evaluation (T&E) 
• Operation and Sustainment 
• Modernization 
• Hardware and Software Modifications 
• Data Mining/Collection/Analysis 
• RDT&E/Mission-Related Information Technology 
• Cybersecurity 

The draft solicitation will be issued in electronic format only, with the actual solicitation anticipated for release in June 2025. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be available.

GENERAL INFORMATION

This is not a request for proposal. It is anticipated that a draft solicitation will be issued late May 2025. This notice of contract action does not constitute a solicitation, nor does it constitute a request for proposals.

This pre-solicitation notice is posted to publicize the Missile Defense Agency’s intent to issue a solicitation for a Multiple Award Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract using a full and open competition. The proposed contract vehicle anticipates a period of performance of 10 years, which will consist of a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods. The anticipated stated maximum value is $151 Billion. Individual order awards will consist of various contract types across various NAICS codes.

Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.304(c)(1)(ii), the Government intends to award to each and all qualifying offerors. A qualifying offeror is an Offeror that is determined to be a responsible source, submits a technically acceptable proposal that conforms to the requirements of the solicitation, and the Contracting Officer has no reason to believe they would be likely to offer other than fair and reasonable pricing. All offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (www.sam.gov) to be eligible for contract award.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

The MDA requires an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, its deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. This contract will support national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector – land, sea, air, space, or cyberspace. This effort supports services and supplies of both classified and unclassified programs on multiple security domains.

This contract will provide rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled applications where pertinent, and maximizing use of digital engineering, open systems architectures, model-based systems engineering, and agile processes in the acquisition, development, fielding, and sustainment of these capabilities.

Anticipated work areas for the IDIQ contract include defense applications related to:

• Science and Technology (S&T) 
• Research and Development (R&D) 
• Prototyping 
• Studies, Demonstrations, Testing of prototypes 
• Disruptive Technologies 
• Experimentation 
• Architecture Development 
• Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis 
• Systems Engineering 
• Weapon Design and Development 
• Integration and Assembly 
• Production and Fielding 
• Test and Evaluation (T&E) 
• Operation and Sustainment 
• Modernization 
• Hardware and Software Modifications 
• Data Mining/Collection/Analysis 
• RDT&E/Mission-Related Information Technology 
• Cybersecurity 

The draft solicitation will be issued in electronic format only, with the actual solicitation anticipated for release early June 2025. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be available.