<p>The U.S. government's Research Development and Engineering Command has awarded a $245,500.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Orbits Lightwave, Inc. for the purchase of 2 lasers. The contract has an ultimate completion date of January 23, 2026. This is a direct federal contract award, with no set-aside designation. The award was made on July 9, 2025.</p>
The Department of the Army awarded a $2,094,978.36 definitive contract to Beacon Photonics Inc. on April 6, 2026, under a total small business set-aside, to develop a mode-locked laser on chip combining the robustness of fiber laser approaches with the miniaturization and fabrication advantages of photonics integrated circuits. The contract is firm fixed price with an ultimate completion date of April 6, 2028. Place of performance is Arlington, VA. The originating solicitation was a Department...
The Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded a $2.095 million definitive contract to N.p. Photonics, Inc. on April 2, 2026, under a total small business set-aside, to design, build, test, and deliver a power-scalable, single-frequency fiber laser prototype operating at 1762 nanometers for barium ion qubits. The contract carries a cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing structure and runs through June 30, 2028. Place of performance is Tucson, Arizona. The laser development effort supports quantum...
The Washington Headquarters Service awarded a $1,699,908 definitive contract to La Luce Cristallina, Inc. for development of ultra-compact wideband electro-optic modulators based on ferroelectric materials on July 1, 2025, under a total small business set-aside. This is a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) award addressing topic O23B-002. The work involves compact electro-optic modulators based on barium titanate on silicon platforms, building on prior Phase I research. Place...
The Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded a $2.09 million definitive contract to Nexus Photonics, Inc. for development of a self-injection locked 1762 nm laser with on-chip amplifier on April 2, 2026, under a total small business set-aside. The effort focuses on developing the clock laser at 1762 nm for barium ion traps, a critical component for advanced quantum sensing and timekeeping applications. Place of performance is Goleta, CA. The contract runs through July 2, 2028 on a...
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awarded a purchase order to NKT Photonics Inc. for $33,181.22 on July 2, 2026, for rugged narrow linewidth lasers to test the FLOC system. Place of performance is Denmark. The order calls for a laser system with design wavelength centered at 1550 nanometers, tunable range of at least 100 nanometers, tuning step size of 10 picometers maximum, stable single-frequency operation, coupling to polarization-maintaining...
This is a $1,543,789.92 cost-plus-fixed-fee Definitive Contract awarded to Orbits Lightwave, Inc., a small business manufacturer located in Pasadena, California. The contract was awarded on October 21, 2015 by the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), a defense agency, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract has an ultimate completion date of November 3, 2021. This contract award indicates that Orbits Lightwave, Inc. has been selected to deliver...
<p>The Office of Naval Research awarded a purchase order to Lumibird Inc. for a CW visible fiber laser valued at $48,830.00 on November 7, 2022. The order carries no set-aside designation and is priced on a firm fixed price basis. Place of performance is Washington, DC 20375. The ultimate completion date is February 27, 2023. The opportunity was posted as a special notice on October 27, 2022, with a due date of October 31, 2022.</p>
This is a $1,227,753.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Oewaves, Inc., a small business manufacturer of specialized microwave photonic products and solutions. The contract is for the development of a "SPECTRALLY-PURE, STABLE, RUGGEDIZED MASTER OSCILLATOR FOR AIRBORNE COHERENT LADAR" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract has a period of performance ending on March 31, 2020. Oewaves, Inc....
This is a $749,999.99 Firm Fixed Price definitive contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to N.p. Photonics, Inc., a small business manufacturer of optical equipment. The contract is for the development of a "Novel High Power and Energy Eye-Safe Transform-Limited Fiber Laser Illuminator" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. This research and development effort aims to advance fiber laser technology for defense applications. As a...