Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) is a Missile Defense Agency multiple award IDIQ contract vehicle designed to rapidly deliver innovative capabilities to the warfighter. With a 10-year ordering period and broad scope spanning research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, testing, production, modernization, cybersecurity, and sustainment, SHIELD enables MDA and other DoD agencies to execute agile, digitally enabled acquisition strategies that strengthen the nation’s integrated missile defense architecture.