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MDA SHIELD

SHIELD provides the Missile Defense Agency 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.

contract overview

SHIELD supports national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector — land, sea, air, space, or cyberspace.

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

AKIRA CONTRACT INFORMATION AT A GLANCE

Contract Name: MDA SHIELD
Contract Number: HQ085926DE395
Performance Period: December 29, 2025 – December 28, 2040
Contract Ceiling: $151 billion (SHIELD multiple-award IDIQ, shared across all awardees)