MDA SHIELD
Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense multi-award IDIQ.
- Contract number
- HQ085926DE536
- Type
- Multi-award IDIQ
- Period of performance
- 28 Dec 2025 – 28 Dec 2035
Blackwatch is a holder of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ, contract HQ085926DE536. SHIELD is a ten-year vehicle running 28 December 2025 through 28 December 2035, with a $151 billion ceiling designed to accelerate research, development, testing, and integration of innovative missile-defense capabilities.
The contract covers a broad range of work that lets MDA and other DoW entities rapidly issue orders under one enterprise vehicle. Blackwatch brings cybersecurity and IT infrastructure modernization, electrical and mechanical engineering, materials science, and microelectronics manufacturing to future SHIELD task orders.
Missile defense
Engineering, integration, and technical services that support layered homeland and regional missile-defense architectures.
Cyber and enterprise IT
Secure infrastructure and modernization for the networks and data environments that missile-defense programs depend on.
Microelectronics and materials
Trusted hardware, materials science, and manufacturing experience applied to next-generation defense technologies.
Speed to order
A multi-award IDIQ built for rapid delivery of innovative capability to the warfighter with increased agility.
