Nooks LLC

Nooks LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, develops classified infrastructure and secure facility technologies for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open without set-asides on substantial defense R&D vehicles. The company is a veteran-owned and self-certified small disadvantaged limited liability corporation that has secured $549.3 million in combined potential value across twelve prime awards since mid-2022, with only $40.8 million obligated to date, reflecting the early-stage and prototype-development nature of its contract portfolio.

Nooks LLC's capability footprint centers on Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) technologies, scalable secure working areas, classified infrastructure modernization, and facility lifecycle management automation for defense operations. Representative work includes a $20.7 million firm fixed-price Phase III SBIR delivery order from the Washington Headquarters Service (awarded March 2026) for Classified Infrastructure as a Service development running through March 2031; a $13.3 million Air Force Phase III SBIR delivery order (September 2025) for CIAAS Space Futures secure working environments through November 2029; a $39.65 million Other Transaction Agreement from the Air Force's Strategic Funding Increase program (September 2024) for advanced secure facility solutions through September 2028; and a $1.8 million DARPA Phase II SBIR award (February 2024) for Automated Requirements Interpretation and Evaluation for Secure Facility Lifecycle (ARIEL) automation technologies.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of the Air Force, which accounts for four awards worth $523.2 million combined potential value — approximately 95% of total addressable value. DARPA, the Missile Defense Agency, the Army Materiel Command, and the Executive Office of the President's Office of Administration round out the customer base. The Air Force concentration reflects Nooks LLC's positioning within Air Force small business R&D and prototype-development initiatives, including the SBIR Phase III pipeline and STRATFI strategic innovation funding.

Nooks LLC holds two material parent vehicles: a single-award Air Force CIAAS Basic Contract SBIR Phase III indefinite-delivery contract (IDIQ 47QFCA25D0006) with a $470 million ceiling and two task orders worth $34 million combined potential value through September 2030, and a Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ (awarded December 2025) with a $151 billion ceiling and one initial $500 delivery order through December 2035. The SHIELD award represents Nooks LLC's entry into a large multi-award vehicle for homeland and force protection systems spanning research, prototyping, systems engineering, and test and evaluation.

Award velocity is accelerating — one award in 2022, four in 2024, and six in 2025 — with the most recent delivery order awarded March 2026. Nooks LLC operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards); no subcontract footprint is present in the source data. Work is performed in Arlington, Virginia and Huntsville, Alabama, with classified and unclassified programs spanning physical sciences R&D, space research, and military experimental development under primary NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences).