Permion Federal LLC

Permion Federal LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Southern Pines, North Carolina, holds a position on the Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ as a prime contractor and has completed early-stage work for the Air Force Research Laboratory. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of current awards) under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations on its defense work, though it carries a self-certified small disadvantaged business designation.

Permion's award footprint is nascent. The vendor has executed three federal awards totaling $75 thousand in combined potential value across two customer agencies as of mid-2026. The Missile Defense Agency accounts for two awards (combined potential value of five hundred dollars) and the Air Force Research Laboratory accounts for one award valued at $74,973. The Air Force contract, awarded June 30, 2026, procures a neuro-symbolic foundation AI model for adaptive sensor fusion and completes by September 30, 2026, under a Total Small Business set-aside. The Missile Defense Agency awards consist of the SHIELD IDIQ vehicle itself (awarded January 21, 2026, with a multi-billion-dollar ceiling running through December 28, 2035) and a five-hundred-dollar initial delivery order issued under that vehicle on the same date, with performance at Huntsville, Alabama.

The SHIELD IDIQ's scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid defense domains. Permion's work to date falls within defense R&D services, distributed across experimental development and applied research classification codes. No subcontract activity appears in the source data. As of the June 2026 award date, Permion is a new entrant to federal prime contracting with minimal obligated revenue and no multi-year pipeline visibility beyond the SHIELD vehicle ceiling.