Kristen Smith 
KBR has been awarded a position on the Missile Defense Agency’s Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense contract, a multiple-award vehicle with a ceiling value of $151 billion that supports the Department of War’s Golden Dome missile defense initiative. The company confirmed the award on Wednesday.
The SHIELD indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity contract enables the MDA and other DOW components to rapidly acquire technologies underpinning layered homeland missile defense via the issuance of task orders.
According to KBR, its selection reflects the company’s experience in systems engineering and integration across classified and unclassified environments, as well as its ability to integrate commercial and non-commercial technologies across multiple domains.
Mark Kavanaugh, president of defense, intelligence and space at KBR, said the company will support MDA’s next-generation missile defense mission and other DOW organizations authorized to use the SHIELD contract.
What Does the SHIELD Contract Enable?
Work competed under SHIELD may span research and development, systems engineering, digital engineering, prototyping, experimentation, modernization and sustainment.
Task orders may incorporate open systems architectures and, where applicable, artificial intelligence and machine learning to shorten development timelines and speed capability delivery.
How Large Is the SHIELD Competitive Pool?
MDA has awarded SHIELD positions in multiple tranches. An initial group of 1,014 companies was announced in early December, followed by an additional 1,086 awards later in the month, bringing the total number of awardees to more than 2,000.
The agency said no funding is obligated at the base contract level and that all work will be awarded through task orders competed among SHIELD awardees. If all options are exercised, the ordering period could extend through December 2035.
