Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense
Flexible Solutions for Our Government Clients
Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) is a $151B multi-award contract designed to support direct orders by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and other Department of War (DoW) agencies. 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.
To achieve these objectives, SHIELD offers a flexible, full-service contract vehicle that supports any contract type. It allows for the rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled applications, and maximizing use of digital engineering, open systems architectures, model-based systems engineering, and agile processes in the acquisition, development, and sustainment of these capabilities. SHIELD supports commercial and non-commercial services and commodities of both classified and unclassified efforts on multiple security domains.
Authorized Users
SHIELD is available to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and other Department of War (DoW) agencies.
Contract Information
The NAICS code is 541715, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology).
Battelle SHIELD Program Manager |
Dave Patterson |
Advantages and Benefits of Using SHIELD
- Allows MDA and DoW entities to rapidly issue orders
- Best Value evaluation methods
- Support Classified or Unclassified efforts
- Price evaluation at the TO/contract level
Using the GSA SHIELD Contract
- Period of Performance: 10 year ordering period Dec. 2025 – Dec. 2035
- Ordering Process: Can be used by MDA and any DoW agency
- Flexible, client-driven requirements
Available Contract Services
SHIELD includes, but is not limited to the following 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 Modification
- Data Mining/Collection/Analysis
- Facilities Engineering/Construction
- Cybersecurity