Active Vigilance Inc.

Active Vigilance Inc., a small-business contractor based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, holds a $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ vehicle with the Missile Defense Agency under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program and operates as a prime contractor exclusively — all three recent awards are prime positions with no subcontract work in the current footprint.

Active Vigilance is a for-profit corporate entity competing under full and open competition (no set-aside designations across recent awards), though the Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the vendor a Total Small Business SBIR Phase II contract. The vendor's recent award portfolio centers on defense research and development, concentrated across two customer agencies: the Missile Defense Agency (2 awards, $500 combined potential value) and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (1 award, $1.2 million combined potential value). All three awards fall within NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences).

The SHIELD IDIQ, awarded January 21, 2026, runs through December 28, 2035 and represents Active Vigilance's largest vehicle position. The contract supports multi-domain homeland defense capabilities — detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of threats across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains — encompassing research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity modernization. The vehicle is structured to accommodate classified and unclassified work across multiple security domains and to leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. A $500 initial delivery order was placed under SHIELD on the same date as the IDIQ award. Separately, Active Vigilance received a $1.25 million Air Force Research Laboratory SBIR Phase II firm fixed-price contract (awarded August 16, 2024, completion May 18, 2026) for development of a Tampering Evaluator for Mission Data Integrity, to be performed in Cheyenne. Activity is nascent — one award in 2024 and two in 2026 — with all potential value obligated.