Angstrom Designs Inc.

Angstrom Designs Inc., a Santa Barbara, California-based manufacturer of specialized electronic and lighting systems, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) on small-business-set-aside and full-and-open federal contracts in solar simulation and LED testing technologies for space and aerospace applications. The for-profit Subchapter S corporation competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides, particularly within NASA's SBIR program and the Air Force Research Laboratory's SBIR initiative, though it also holds a $45 million indefinite-delivery contract with NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center on an unrestricted basis.

Angstrom Designs' customer base centers on space-focused federal research and development organizations. The top five funding entities account for 87% of recent award count and 98% of combined potential value, led decisively by NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (2 awards, $45 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (6 awards, $5 million). The NASA Shared Services Center rounds out the leading customer (14 awards, $4.1 million), with the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research and Air Force Space Command Space and Missile Systems Center contributing smaller dollar concentrations. The two rankings diverge sharply — Armstrong's $45 million IDIQ dwarfs all other activity — but smaller awards distribute across multiple NASA centers (Shared Services, Glenn, main NASA) and Air Force labs.

Angstrom's capability portfolio anchors on programmable LED solar simulators (pLEDSS), ultraviolet and rapid-response LED testing systems for advanced space solar cells, payload integration services, and solar panel inspection and testing. Representative work includes a $1.25 million SBIR Phase II delivery order from AFRL for photovoltaic thermal runaway test capability (awarded September 2025, completing June 2027), a $344 thousand sole-source NASA purchase order for 52 pLED Solar Simulator Heads supporting solar array testing (awarded June 2025), and a $1.7 million definitive contract from the Office of Naval Research for solar panel inspection and testing services in Santa Barbara (awarded November 2023, completing November 2025).

Angstrom holds one named parent vehicle — the $45 million Suborbital/Hosted Orbital Flight and Payload Integration Services 4 indefinite-delivery contract with NASA Armstrong (running through February 2029), under which it received a $25 thousand delivery order in March 2024 for vehicle capability assessment and payload integration study work. Award activity trended upward from 2022 through 2024 (1, 2, and 5 awards respectively) before dipping in 2025 and early 2026 (2 and 1 awards). Two awards with combined potential value of $2.5 million reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure. Angstrom does not subcontract — all work is prime execution.

Automation, Instrumentation and Systems Design Engineering. Custom mechanical, electrical and software design, fabrication and testing to build automated systems, experiments and instruments.