Advr, Inc.

Advr, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, develops engineered nonlinear optical technologies and quantum photonic devices as a small business prime contractor under recurring total small business set-asides, competing across SBIR, STTR, and full-and-open purchase orders for civilian research agencies and the Department of Defense.

Advr specializes in waveguide-based quantum light sources, entangled photon generators, frequency converters, phase and amplitude modulators, and integrated photonic circuits for quantum information science, quantum sensing, and quantum communication applications. The company operates almost entirely as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards), with minimal subcontract footprint — three named sub-awards placed with General Dynamics Mission Systems for optical phase modulators and circuit card assemblies and with Honeywell International for compact rubidium timing components, all subordinate to larger defense primes' quantum-technology initiatives.

Customer concentration centers on civilian research agencies rather than defense. The top five funding entities by award count represent 61% of recent awards: NASA Shared Services Center leads in volume (39 awards, $8.8 million combined potential value), followed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (31 awards, $12.8 million), NASA Goddard Space Center (18 awards, $3.3 million), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (17 awards, $659 thousand), and NASA Langley Research Center (13 awards, $2.3 million). By dollar concentration, the Air Force Research Laboratory's $12.8 million anchors the top position, with NASA Shared Services Center's $8.8 million and NASA Goddard's $3.3 million following. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Naval Strategic Systems Programs round out significant dollar customers ($2.6 million and approximately $1.4 million respectively). Across 27 distinct customer agencies, Advr's footprint skews heavily toward space, quantum science, and basic research rather than operations or sustainment.

Award category distribution reinforces the R&D focus: 53 awards fall under Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences NAICS; 48 awards map to Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing; 38 awards align with additional physical-sciences R&D. Top PSC codes emphasize Space R&D Services and Basic Research (48 awards), Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (27 awards), and Optical Instruments and Components (19 awards). Set-aside posture is consistent: most recent prime awards carry total small business set-aside designations under SBIR Phase I, SBIR Phase II, STTR Phase I, and STTR Phase II vehicles; a minority of purchase orders (roughly 20% of named awards) carry no set-aside, typically for NIST, the Naval Observatory, and specialty optical component deliveries to AFRL.

Recent named representative work includes a $1.9 million definitive contract from AFRL awarded March 2026 for waveguide-based, high-power, electro-optic frequency combs for space environments (total small business set-aside, completing March 2028); a $1.25 million STTR Phase II from AFRL awarded September 2024 for waveguide-based, pulsed entangled-photon sources at 780nm with density-matrix quantum-state modeling (completing December 2026); a $1.25 million STTR Phase II from AFRL awarded September 2024 for fully packaged waveguide-based biphoton sources with high brightness and heralding efficiency (completing December 2026); a $749.964 million STTR Phase II from NASA Shared Services Center awarded April 2022 for high-purity, high-rate photon-pair sources for space-based entanglement distribution (completed April 2024); a $239.929 million SBIR Phase I from Naval Sea Systems Command awarded November 2024 (completing November 2026); and a $1.2 million definitive contract from Naval Strategic Systems Programs awarded November 2023 for quantum optical component development (completing May 2026). Federal grant work includes a $249.942 thousand Department of Energy Office of Science project grant awarded February 2022 for waveguide-based squeezed-light-source development (completed February 2023) and an identically titled Office of Science grant on non-Gaussian quantum states (completed February 2023).

Activity volume has oscillated: ten awards in 2022, seven in 2023, thirteen in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 (as of March 2026 snapshot). Five awards carrying combined potential value of $4.8 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing material recompete exposure for the vendor and pipeline opportunity for competitors. The combined potential value across all 195 awards in source data is $39.2 million, with obligated dollars reaching $46.4 million—an over-obligation pattern typical of research vehicles where phases complete beyond initially projected ceilings or follow-on phases execute at higher values than the Phase I vehicle ceiling.

Manufacturers of Waveguides and Laser devices. Primarily a Research and Development Company.