KBR announced Wednesday that it has been awarded a seat on the contract for the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) that focuses on rapid delivery of warfighting capabilities.
The company said the Multiple-Award, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract has a ceiling of $151 billion. The award will allow KBR to deliver solutions for land, sea, air, space and cyberspace, the company said. The SHIELD program is a flexible contract vehicle that will allow the MDA to rapidly develop advanced missile defense systems using emerging tech to counter threats to the U.S. The 10-year contract aims to streamline and accelerate development, prototyping and fielding of cutting-edge missile defense technologies and build a layered defense for the U.S, supporting President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome for America” vision.
“We are proud to collaborate with the Missile Defense Agency to support its next generation missile defense mission, its critical role under the Golden Dome for America initiative, and other Department of (Defense) organizations who also have the ability to utilize this contract for requirements that fall within scope,” Mark Kavanaugh, President of Defense, Intelligence and Space with KBR. “This award highlights KBR’s role as a technology leader and architecture design agent, delivering advanced defense solutions, digital engineering and AI-enabled capabilities that ensure mission success for the warfighter.”
KBR is a solution provider, the company said, that combines the ability to integrate commercial and non-commercial technologies across classified and unclassified domains. The company has provided systems engineering and integration expertise for major missile defense systems, and uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, open systems architectures, virtual prototyping, and model-based systems engineering to “accelerate development, fielding and sustainment of advanced capabilities.”