Updated December 18, 2025
Following the initial tranche of 1,014 awards announced December 2, 2025, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has made an additional 1,086 awards under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) Contract.
In accordance with the solicitation, the Government continues with staggered awards and will work with remaining offerors accordingly. To utilize this critical contract vehicle in an efficient and timely manner, the Government has transitioned to the ordering phase by conducting market research and drafting Fair Opportunity Proposal Requests. Please be advised that contract holders will be contacted for opportunities to compete for task and delivery orders under this IDIQ.
A list of awardees is attached along with their respective contract numbers can be found here. Read more here.
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded the first in a series of awards for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling of $151,000,000,000. This first phase of staggered awards is to 1,014 qualifying offerors in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. SHIELD allows MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly compete orders under one flexible enterprise vehicle.
Performance will occur across the U.S. This contract encompasses a broad range of work areas that allows for the 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, and sustainment of these capabilities.
If all options are exercised, work will continue through December 2035. No funds will be obligated on the base award; funds will be obligated at the order level. This contract was competitively procured via the System for Award Management website, with 2,463 offers received. MDA, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, is the contracting activity (HQ085925RE001).
Source: DOD
