Contracts
The Missile Defense Agency’s Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD)
The Missile Defense Agency’s Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) is a 10-year, $151 billion IDIQ contract vehicle designed to enable the rapid, flexible, and scalable delivery of innovative, mission-critical capabilities to the warfighter across a broad range of mission and technical domains.
Why Use this Vehicle
- Pre-selected pool of highly qualified vendors
- Rapid acquisition and deployment — streamlined ordering allows the Missile Defense Agency to field innovative technologies faster than traditional procurement methods.
- Flexibility across mission needs — the broad scope supports diverse technical, engineering, and operational requirements as mission priorities evolve.
- Access to innovation — the vehicle encourages competition and on-ramping of cutting-edge solutions from a wide range of industry partners.
- Scalability and agility — task orders can be sized and structured to meet everything from rapid prototypes to large-scale operational deployments.