Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD)

SHIELD provides the MDA with a vehicle for acquiring support for 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. SHIELD supports national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missiles, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector - land, sea, air, space, or cyberspace.

Through the SHIELD contract, Inserso offers innovative and advanced IT services, including artificial intelligence, machine learning-enabled applications, digital engineering, open systems architectures, model-based systems engineering, and agile system development, fielding, and sustainment.

Work Areas

  • 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
  • Cybersecurity

Benefits of Using SHIELD

  • Access to innovative cutting-edge IT capabilities
  • Decentralized ordering
  • Usable by all DoD departments and agencies

Contract Information

Contract Name:
Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD)
Contract Number:
HQ085926DE301
Business Type:
Other than Small Business
Ordering Period:
12/29/2025 – 12/28/2035
Performance Period:
12/29/2025 - 12/28/2040
Contract Ceiling:
$151,000,000,000

Ordering Procedures

  • The MDA’s SHIELD ordering guide is available on MDA's website.

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