AST SpaceMobile Inc. announced that it has been awarded a prime contract position on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) program. This contract allows AST SpaceMobile to bid directly on future task orders related to the research, development, engineering, prototyping, and operations of critical Missile Defense Agency systems. The SHIELD program is part of the broader Golden Dome strategy, which aims to build resilient, layered protection against a variety of threats across multiple operational domains.

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