03 December 2025

Aberdeen, Maryland ─ Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awards Veritech a Prime Contractor role on the $151B MDA SHIELD MA-IDIQ.
The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (MA IDIQ) contract anticipates a Period of Performance of 10 years with an anticipated maximum value of $151 Billion.

The MDA requires an advanced, multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, its deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. SHIELD will support national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector – land, sea, air, space, or cyberspace. This effort supports services and supplies of both classified and unclassified programs on multiple security domains.

This contract will provide 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, fielding, and sustainment of these capabilities.

Anticipated work areas for Veritech on the IDIQ contract include defense applications related to:
🌟 Science and Technology (S&T)
🌟 Research and Development (R&D)
🌟 Prototyping
🌟 Studies, Demonstrations, Testing of prototypes
🌟 Disruptive Technologies
🌟 Experimentation
🌟 Architecture Development
🌟 Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis
🌟 Systems Engineering
🌟 Integration and Assembly
🌟 Production and Fielding
🌟 Test and Evaluation (T&E)
🌟 Operation and Sustainment
🌟 Modernization
🌟 Hardware and Software Modifications
🌟 RDT&E/Mission-Related Information Technology

Congratulations to all current winners and here’s hoping to MORE joining the ranks as the awards continue to be announced.

About Veritech

Located in Aberdeen, Maryland, Veritech began operations in September 2015. Veritech is an International Organization of Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 certified, full life-cycle engineering firm specializing in designing software and hardware solutions with experience in the Department of Defense, Avionics, and Telecommunications industries. Veritech currently manufactures designs for the United States Military and Allied Nations, to include, our innovative range of tactical and power products enabling the Warfighter to leverage tactical communications and power as a combat resource. The team consists of diverse labor categories (LCATs) with a wide array of backgrounds, all with the centralized focus to “Bring Simplicity to Your Complexity” with innovative, stable, and high-quality products and services. Veritech is headquartered at 1070 Hardees Drive, Aberdeen, Maryland 21001.

Contact

Tracy M. Batman
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
tbatman@veritech.com