Nominal, Inc.

Nominal, Inc., a small business headquartered in Austin, Texas, delivers advanced software development and analysis tools for aerospace and defense applications to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor across research and development, prototype development, and operational test and evaluation programs. Nominal competes on full-and-open vehicles with no recurring set-aside designations and operates as a parent company with one named subsidiary, Nominal USG, LLC.

Nominal's capability portfolio centers on telemetry data analysis platforms, digital engineering for hypersonics test and evaluation, advanced flight test education software, and vehicle assessment tools. The company has built this expertise through a pipeline of Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer awards from the Air Force Research Laboratory and Naval Air Warfare Center, totaling approximately $4.2 million across Phase II contracts, and has progressed into Phase III and larger delivery-order work. Recent representative awards include a $11.9 million firm fixed-price delivery order from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued February 24, 2026, for software and engineering services to deliver a digital backbone through high-scale data ingestion, synchronized analysis, comparative modeling, and collaborative workflows (completion August 23, 2026); a $1.49 million Phase III Small Business Technology Transfer definitive contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center for research and development continuation funding (completion July 9, 2026); and an $1.8 million Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer purchase order from the Air Force Research Laboratory issued March 29, 2024, for modern analysis and evaluation software for advanced flight test education and development (completion September 26, 2025).

Nominal's customer concentration is heavily weighted to Department of Defense mission areas. By dollar potential, the Department of the Air Force commands 92% across two awards (the $46 billion Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract ceiling and a $52.7 million Air Force Materiel Command Indefinite Delivery Contract), the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command represents $4 billion through the SeaPort Next Generation vehicle, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency accounts for $11.9 million in direct work. By award count, the Air Force Research Laboratory leads with four awards ($4.3 million combined potential value), followed by two each from Naval Air Warfare Center and Naval Sea Systems Command. This concentration reflects Nominal's strategic positioning in Air Force and Navy research and development modernization initiatives rather than broad civilian-agency work.

Nominal holds seats on four major indefinite-delivery vehicles. The Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract, a $46 billion multiple-award IDIQ with the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center (awarded March 13, 2025, extending through September 9, 2031), has generated one $1,000 task order to date. The Air Force Materiel Command awarded a $52.68 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for Small Business Technology Transfer Phase III software development and analysis tools (awarded September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2030), with an initial $300,000 task order issued concurrently. Nominal also received a $4 billion multiple-award SeaPort Next Generation contract from Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded January 2, 2025, through January 1, 2029) with a $500 minimum-guarantee task order, and a position on the $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense multiple-award contract from the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 29, 2025, through December 28, 2035) with an initial $500 delivery order. A Naval Air Warfare Center Basic Ordering Agreement with no stated ceiling (awarded March 6, 2026, extending through March 5, 2031) establishes a framework for Phase III continuation orders under Nominal's Small Business Innovation Research work.

Award activity has accelerated sharply. Nominal received two awards in 2023, two in 2024, nine in 2025, and two in the first quarter of 2026. However, combined potential value is heavily backloaded into the two large indefinite-delivery vehicles ($50 billion of the $50.07 billion combined potential value sits on the Air Force and Navy IDIQs). Only $12.2 million in combined potential value across two awards faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure; conversely, the large vehicle ceilings create significant runway for task-order competitions through 2030–2031. Obligated dollars across all awards total $7.4 million against $50.07 billion in potential value, reflecting the early-stage posture of most vehicle awards and the delivery-order status of major contracts. Nominal does not hold a subcontractor role; all fifteen recent awards are prime positions across research and development, prototype, and test-and-evaluation mission areas, with work concentrated on NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences).