ASRC Federal is pleased to announce it was awarded a contract for the Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling of $151B. This contract encompasses a broad range of work areas that allows for the rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility. 

The announcement by the Department of War (DOW) characterizes SHIELD: “This contract encompasses a broad range of work areas that allows for the rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning enabled applications where pertinent, 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.” 

“ASRC Federal’s decades of experience in the modernization of weapon systems’ command and control and the unique insights gained from operating and maintaining some of the Nation’s most critical infrastructure has positioned us as a cost-efficient, dependable partner to MDA in multi-domain homeland defense/next generation missile defense,” said Mike Manzo, president of defense and intelligence operating group at ASRC Federal.