Nu Waves LTD.

Nu Waves LTD., doing business as Nuwaves RF Solutions, manufactures radio frequency systems, power amplifiers, bidirectional amplifiers, and RF filters for defense and space applications as a prime contractor (75% of recent awards) and holds SBA Certified Veteran-Owned Small Business status expiring November 30, 2027. The company is a for-profit limited liability partnership headquartered in Liberty Township, Ohio, competing predominantly in full-and-open federal procurements without set-aside restrictions — though recent SBIR Phase I and II awards carry total small-business set-asides.

The scale of Nu Waves' federal footprint is anchored by a single transformational vehicle: a $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on January 21, 2026, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. That vehicle dwarfs all other activity; the next-largest customer relationship — a $249.9 million Naval Air Warfare Center indefinite-delivery contract for Combat Environment Instrumentation Systems — represents less than 0.35% of the SHIELD ceiling. The top two customers by dollar value account for 100% of combined potential value: Naval Sea Systems Command alone carries $72.57 billion in combined potential value across 13 awards (primarily the SHIELD IDIQ and a $15 million BPA for electronic devices through August 2029), and Naval Air Warfare Center holds $451.6 million across 11 awards. The concentration is severe and recent. NASA's Shared Services Center, the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, and the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Center round out the top five by value, each holding under $2 million.

By award count, the distribution is wider but still Navy-dominant: Naval Sea Systems Command (13 awards), Naval Air Warfare Center (11 awards), Air Force Materiel Command (8 awards), and NASA Shared Services Center (7 awards) account for 55% of 83 total awards. Recent activity runs at 11 awards in 2025 and 2 in 2026 (year-to-date snapshot). Awards skew R&D and manufacturing: the top NAICS categories are research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (15 awards), engineering services (11 awards), and search-detection-navigation-guidance systems manufacturing (9 awards); the top PSC codes are electronic countermeasures equipment (5 awards), communications security equipment (4 awards), and RF amplifiers (3 awards).

Beyond the SHIELD IDIQ's one initial $500 task order, Nu Waves operates under a $15 million single-award BPA with Naval Sea Systems Command running through August 2029, a $249.9 million Naval Air Warfare Center IDC through March 2028 for combat environment instrumentation systems, a GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract at $475,000 through November 2028, and smaller Air Force and NASA task order vehicles. Concrete representative prime work includes a $849,526 SBIR Phase II definitive contract from NASA's Shared Services Center (awarded May 2023) for coupled resonator power combiner development with completion May 2025, a $159,080 sole-source purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command (August 2023) for MILWAVES radio circuit card assemblies, and a $117,910 small-business-set-aside purchase order from Air Force Special Operations Command (September 2022) for VAMPIRE modules.

On the subcontractor side, Nu Waves supplies RF components and amplifiers to Northrop Grumman on the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program (multiple 2025 awards), to Sierra Nevada Company on BIG SAFARI CCAs, to The Corporation of Mercer University on C-130 structural and avionics support programs, to L3 Technologies on submarine photonics masts, and to Seacorp on Navy SBIR Phase III work. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $16.5 million against a $73.02 billion potential-value ceiling — a 0.02% obligation rate characteristic of vehicles in early ordering phases and IDIQ structures with substantial unexercised ceilings. The vendor serves 25 distinct customer agencies, though dollar concentration in the Navy's two commands (Naval Sea Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center) and the Missile Defense Agency's SHIELD program creates material recompete risk concentrated in Navy procurement cycles and SHIELD ordering momentum.

NuWaves Engineering is a design and development engineering firm for RF and Wireless designs serving the Aerospace, Defense, and Industrial Markets. State of the art research and development in RF Engineering from concept through production. Further, NuWaves has several commercial-off-the-shelf Products including RF Power Amplifiers, bidirectional amplifiers, frequency converters (up and down converters), High-Power T/R Switches, RF Front-Ends, and RF Filters.