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.

Contract Scope 

Cambridge’s SHIELD contract provides direct access to services in that support national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missiles, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector – land, sea, air, space, or cybersecurity – including: 

• 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
• Weapon Design and Development
• Integration and Assembly
• Production and Fielding
• Test and Evaluation (T&E)
• Operation and Sustainment
• Modernization
• Hardware and Software Modifications
• Data Mining/Collection/Analysis
• Facilities Engineering and Sustainment
• Cybersecurity