Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF401

Nominal, Inc., a small business headquartered in Austin, Texas, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance consisting of a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods. No set-aside designations were utilized in this full and open competition procurement. The government intends to award task orders to all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and may require facility clearances for both classified and unclassified work.

Under this IDIQ vehicle, Nominal will provide comprehensive materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support the MDA's multi-domain defense objectives. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts directed at detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. The SHIELD program leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide continuous, layered protection of the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Nominal's expertise in advanced software development and analysis tools for aerospace and defense applications, demonstrated through prior Department of Defense contracts with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Air Warfare Center, and Air Force Materiel Command, positions the company to compete for task orders supporting these defense modernization initiatives.