Leonardo DRS has secured multiple contracts under the Missile Defense Agency’s Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program.
The awards fall under indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts, which carry a ceiling of $151 billion.
While no dollar value was disclosed for the individual awards, the contracts allow Leonardo DRS to bid on future work across a wide range of missile defense technologies during the program’s performance period.
Leonardo DRS said its role under SHIELD will draw on its experience in air and missile defense technologies, with an emphasis on speed, integration, and scalability.
John Baylouny, President and CEO of Leonardo DRS, said that “they stand ready today to answer the call with our next-generation air and missile defense capabilities and deliver proven performance at speed to help the Missile Defense Agency and the warfighter outpace rapidly evolving threats.”
SHIELD
SHIELD is the Missile Defense Agency’s framework for rapidly developing and fielding new homeland missile defense capabilities.
The agency published a pre-solicitation paper in July 2025, detailing the work and requirements.
Rather than focusing on a single weapon system, the program is designed to integrate sensors, interceptors, command-and-control, and emerging technologies into a layered defense architecture capable of responding to evolving ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats.
It also aims to provide support for a plan that will allow rapid tasking while integrating artificial intelligence, digital engineering, and machine learning, among others.
In December 2025, the US agency said that it selected 1,014 companies for the opening round of the program.
By January 2026, HII announced that it had been awarded a deal that covers work related to command and control integration, directed energy, cyber operations, microelectronics, spectrum management, training systems, maintenance, and logistics.
