January 01, 2024
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Awarding Agency: U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
Contract Number: HQ085926FE917
Description: The Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense) contract is a cornerstone acquisition vehicle designed to rapidly deliver advanced, mission-critical technologies in support of U.S. homeland and deployed forces defense. Structured as a multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a $151 billion ceiling over a 10-year ordering period, SHIELD enables the Department of Defense to procure cutting-edge capabilities across missile, hypersonic, cyber, space, unmanned systems, and hybrid threat domains. The contract directly underpins the Golden Dome homeland defense architecture, providing a flexible and scalable mechanism to field layered, adaptive defenses against increasingly complex and evolving threats.
SHIELD plays a central role in accelerating defense modernization by streamlining access to innovation and fostering broad industry participation, from traditional defense primes to emerging commercial technology providers. Its scope spans advanced research and development, rapid prototyping, system integration, data fusion and analytics, and cybersecurity, ensuring alignment with multi-domain operational requirements. By enabling continuous competition and faster acquisition cycles, SHIELD reduces procurement timelines, strengthens warfighter decision advantage, and expands the defense industrial base—making it a critical enabler of resilient, integrated, and future-ready national defense capabilities.
Key Words
Acquisition Agility, Advanced Research & Development (R&D), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Autonomous Systems, Cybersecurity & Zero Trust, Data Fusion & Analytics, Defense Innovation, Digital Engineering, Disruptive Technologies, DoD Modernization, Golden Dome Architecture, Homeland Defense, Hypersonic Threat Defense, Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD), Layered Defense Systems, Machine Learning (ML), Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Multi-Domain Operations, National Security Systems, Prototyping & Rapid Fielding, Resilient Architectures, Sensor Integration, Space & Missile Defense, Systems Integration, Threat Detection & Tracking, UAS / UAV Defense, Warfighter Decision Advantage
Awarding Agency: Department of the Navy
Contract Number: Phase I - N6833524C0170, Phase II - N6833525C0170
Description: The proposed capability will address Commercial technology (TRL 8/9) to enhance mission capabilities of unmanned surface and subsurface vessels (USV/UUV) and systems. Global Positioning System (GPS) denied navigation, small unmanned underwater vehicles and bottom crawlers, improved C3 (Command, Control and Communications), resilient communications paths, high throughput data exfiltration/infiltration paths, replenishment, and monitoring, sustainment, repair and maintenance of unmanned systems. Sense and avoid systems for small UUVs. Increased autonomy for unmanned resupply USV. Alternative Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) systems, including optical ship-relative navigation. Reduced data-exchange requirements. Low Probability of Intercept/Detection (LPI/D) communications methods.
Key Words:
Artificial Intelligence (Anomaly Detector, Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent), beam steering antenna, Counter Electronic Warfare, Encryption, cybersecurity, Frequency Hopping, 5G, Low Probability of Detection/Low Probability of Interception (LPD/LPI), neuromorphic processor, physics-based models, phased array antenna, quantum resistant, Radio Frequency (RF), SATCOM, Software Defined Radio, Zero Trust, USV/UUV, Simulations, 3GPP, O-RAN, UMV, UMA, UMAA
Autonomy, Command, Control, Communications (C3), C4ISR, Contested Logistics, Cyber Security, Distributed Sensing and Communications (DSaC), Telecommunications. Includes testing for Electromagnetic Compatibility EMC/Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) with NATO and coalition partner systems
Awarding Agency: US Air Force
Contract Numbers: FA864923P0397 and FA864923P1259
Description: Isidore will enhance cyber-resiliency and autonomy of space infrastructure and introduce anti-fragility in the face of an adversarial attack (enable the platform to recover from an attack in a better state, because it has learned), trust/authenticity, confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information lifecycle processes to secure global strategic and tactical communications in contested environments, and in all domains.
Key Words
Artificial Intelligence (Anomaly Detector, Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent), Counter Adversarial AI, Encryption, cybersecurity, neuromorphic processor, physics-based models, quantum resistant, Radio Frequency, SATCOM, Zero Trust
Autonomy, Command, Control, Communications (C3), CubeSat, Space COMSEC, Contested, Denied Operationally Limited (CDO-L), Telecommunications
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