Control Vision, Inc.

Control Vision, Inc., a veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Tucson, Arizona, develops advanced imaging sensors, hyperspectral sensors, and flight-vehicle surface sensor technology for Department of Defense missile defense and aerospace applications, operating as a prime contractor on SBIR/STTR research-and-development awards and on a recently awarded multi-billion-dollar IDIQ vehicle. The vendor competes exclusively under full-and-open or total small business set-aside designations; all recent work carries small-business reserve or SBIR/STTR framing.

Control Vision's customer concentration is highly concentrated in missile defense. The Missile Defense Agency funds 18 awards worth $22.8 million combined potential value (85% of the vendor's recent prime footprint), while the Air Force Research Laboratory funds 8 awards worth $3.9 million. The Navy's Strategic Systems Programs, NASA, and the Air Force account for the remaining 3 awards. Across the portfolio, twelve awards are classified under research and development in physical and engineering sciences, reflecting the vendor's core capability in sensor R&D.

Recent capability work includes a $4.87 million SBIR Phase III cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with the Missile Defense Agency for IRBM/ICBM camera upgrade (ultimate completion September 2027), a $2.99 million SBIR Phase II cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with MDA for a fly-along post-intercept assessment sensor for next-generation interceptor (completion April 2027), a $1.79 million SBIR Phase II contract with MDA for hyperspectral sensor development for scene characterization (completion March 2026), a $1.39 million SBIR Phase II contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory for imaging sensor payload development for high-speed flight environments (completion April 2027), and a $3 million SBIR Phase II contract with MDA for embedded flight-vehicle surface sensor technology (completion February 2027, place of performance Huntsville, Alabama).

Control Vision was awarded a position on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ in December 2025 with a multi-billion-dollar ceiling and performance through December 2035. The vendor issued an initial delivery order on the same date at $500 for the SHIELD initial order, with place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The SHIELD contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization for multi-domain air and missile defense across classified and unclassified security domains.

Activity has accelerated in the past two years — one award each in 2021, 2022, and 2023, followed by four awards in both 2024 and 2025. Four awards worth $12.3 million combined potential value reach completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk. Control Vision subcontracts to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on IRBM target work and photographic equipment manufacturing roles. The vendor's footprint shows no current position on government-wide acquisition contracts or other multi-agency IDVs beyond SHIELD.