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MDA issues pre-solicitation notice for SHIELD Multiple Award IDIQ

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May 22, 2025

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Today the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) issued on SAM.gov a pre-solicitation notice for the Multiple Award Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. MDA plans to issue the SHIELD solicitation in June using 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 scope encompasses more than 19 work areas, including:

  • 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 proposed contract vehicle anticipates a period of performance of 10 years and an anticipated maximum value of $151 Billion. Interested parties can find the full notice on SAM.gov under Notice ID HQ085925RE001.



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