Hughes Awarded SHIELD Contract from Missile Defense Agency
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Hughes Awarded SHIELD Contract from Missile Defense Agency

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes), an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), 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 Hughes Defense team provides agility and commercial scale with deep mission understanding and engineering prowess. The team serves as an essential orchestrator, ensuring that information-sharing systems work together to support customer missions. By embracing transport-agnostic, software-defined, and open architectures, Hughes reduces the operational burden and cost. Hughes delivers secure, seamless, multi-domain connectivity the modern warfighter needs to maintain decision dominance now and in the future.

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Publishdate:
Jan 7, 2026
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