The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (MAC IDIQ).  ASSYST is the Prime Contractor for MDA SHIELD IDIQ. 

MDA SHIELD supports national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missiles, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector. SHIELD task and delivery orders will incorporate processes that provide rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter using artificial intelligence and/or machine learning, leveraging digital engineering, open systems architectures, model-based systems engineering, and agile processes. This vehicle is available to all DoD departments and agencies to use to procure 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; Facilities Engineering and Sustainment; and Cybersecurity. 

MDA SHIELD provides the Department of War (DoW) with a MAC IDIQ vehicle to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing or otherwise negating threats to the United States homeland, its deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight by ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missile, and other advanced aerial attacks.

Contract Vehicle Details

Contract Type

IDIQ

Contract Type(s) Issued

Determined at the task order/delivery order level

Performance Period

Base Ordering Period: 3 years
Optional Ordering Period 1:  2 years
Optional Ordering Period 2:  3 years
Optional Ordering Period 3:  2 years

Contract Ceiling

$151,000,000,000.00

Benefits of Using MDA SHIELD

MDA SHIELD provides flexibility, rapid capability delivery, and broad support scope for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and authorized DoD entities. MDA SHIELD has a comprehensive scope meeting the diverse needs of the MDA and DoD. 

ASSYST Contract Number

HQ085926DE958

ASSYST POCs

Eugene Goldlust 
703-230-3100 
shield@assyst.net

Joe Anderson
703-230-3107
shield@assyst.net

Loren Gray
703-230-3100
shield@assyst.net 

Service Areas:

The types of services available include the following: 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; Facilities Engineering and Sustainment; and Cybersecurity.