Advanced Systems & Technologies Inc.

Advanced Systems & Technologies Inc., a small for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Irvine, California, operates exclusively as a prime contractor on federal research and development awards in advanced photonics, adaptive optics, and directed energy systems, with all fifty awards in the source data held in prime capacity and zero subcontract exposure. The vendor competes entirely under Total Small Business set-asides, primarily through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs managed by the Department of Defense, NASA, and the Department of the Navy.

Advanced Systems & Technologies Inc.'s customer base concentrates heavily in defense research laboratories. The top five customer agencies account for 92% of recent awards by count and 94% by combined potential value: the Air Force Research Laboratory (16 awards, $7 million), NASA's Shared Services Center (13 awards, $5.8 million), the Navy's Office of Naval Research (9 awards, $5.3 million), the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (5 awards, $3.6 million), and Naval Air Systems Command's Naval Air Warfare Center (3 awards, $1.2 million). The vendor's capability portfolio centers on wavefront sensing, adaptive optics control, ultra-short laser pulse propagation, and directed energy technologies. Representative work includes a $1.8 million Phase II SBIR award from the Air Force Research Laboratory in August 2025 for the Sensor-Array Broadband Express-Rate Wavefront Sensor (SABER_WFS) extending through November 2027, a $1.315 million Phase II STTR award from Army DEVCOM in September 2023 for Laser Activated Plasma (LAPLAS) standoff electronic denial, a $224,999 Phase I SBIR from the Shared Services Center in September 2026 for a dual-mode adaptive resolution interferometer, and a $580,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research in 2022 for cavity-mode-injected laser research (CAMILA-P and CAMILA-USLP) completing in April 2026.

Activity has declined in recent years—one award in 2025 and one in 2026, following two awards in 2024 and 2023. Two awards (combined potential value $2 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. Across the fifty-award footprint, the vendor's work splits between physical and engineering sciences R&D (33 awards by NAICS 541712) and space R&D services (12 awards by PSC). The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures minimal federal services activity—$731 thousand invoiced in FY2023 across 0.1 FTEs on a single prime record—reflecting the vendor's concentration on time-and-materials and firm-fixed-price R&D contracts rather than labor-hour service agreements above the SCI reporting threshold. The vendor operates its own delivery team with no subcontractor engagement across the award portfolio.