The Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD contract vehicle is a 10‑year, multiple‑award IDIQ designed to rapidly acquire and field advanced homeland missile‑defense capabilities. It provides a flexible, enterprise‑wide mechanism for competing task orders across a broad industrial base of 2,400+ qualified vendors, accelerating delivery of technologies such as AI/ML‑enabled systems, digital engineering, sensor integration, command‑and‑control, and hypersonic defense. SHIELD underpins the Pentagon’s Golden Dome architecture, enabling fast, iterative procurement to keep pace with evolving threats.
