Bruker Nano, Inc.

Bruker Nano, Inc., doing business as Bruker Nano Surfaces Division, manufactures atomic force microscopes, optical profilometers, laser scanning microscopes, nanoindentation systems, and related precision measurement instrumentation for federal research and defense agencies as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) and holds no SBA set-asides. The company is a for-profit manufacturer and subsidiary of Veeco Instruments Inc., headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, competing in the full-and-open market without reliance on socioeconomic set-asides across its entire federal footprint.

Bruker Nano's federal work centers on equipment procurement, repairs, maintenance agreements, and field installations supporting nanotechnology, materials science, and life-sciences research. Representative prime awards include a $493,293 firm fixed-price purchase order from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for an Ultima 2Pplus multi-photon microscopy system with 3D spatial light modulator photostimulation (awarded June 2024), a $423,770 order from the United States Mint for an Alicona scanner at its research laboratory (August 2024), a $382,500 order from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a JPK NanoWizard-5 atomic force microscope (August 2023), and a $311,680 order from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a JPK NanoWizard 4 XP AFM system (September 2021). Smaller orders for maintenance, repairs, and components are typical — the $108,080 extended warranty for a Bruker Ultima 2P Plus microscope at NINDS (September 2026), the $84,075.80 five-year Labscape Complete Care Maintenance Agreement at NIST (August 2022), and routine scan head replacements and controller refurbishments at $10 thousand to $60 thousand range appear frequently in the portfolio.

Customer concentration skews heavily toward civilian research agencies. The top five funding agencies account for approximately 40% of awards: the National Institute of Standards and Technology (61 awards, $6.3 million combined potential value) and the Office of Naval Research (47 awards, $3.2 million) dominate by both count and dollars, followed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (8 awards, $2.1 million potential value), the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (23 awards, $2.1 million), and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (15 awards, $1.8 million). NIST's substantial award count reflects ongoing equipment procurement, upgrades, repairs, and maintenance across multiple laboratories. The broader NIH network — NIDDK, NICHD, NHLBI, NIAA, NIMH, and others — accounts for a significant share of dollars through high-value microscopy system acquisitions. The Navy research and operational commands (ONR, Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center, Naval Strategic Systems Programs) represent sustained defense demand for precision measurement equipment and maintenance services.

Bruker Nano operates as a pure prime contractor on the federal market; 98% of its 402 recent awards are primes, with only 9 sub-awards recorded. The three named sub-award primes are Leidos, Inc. (Research Support Services for JSC Engineering and Exploration, September 2025), Triad National Security, LLC (management and operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory, April 2025), and Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC (management and operation of the Naval Nuclear Laboratory at Bettis, multiple awards 2023–2024). Sub work focuses on supplying optical profilometer systems, Alicona metrology tools, and nanoindentation equipment as components of larger facility-management contracts rather than as standalone projects.

Activity has averaged 18 to 22 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2025), with modest annual variation and only two awards recorded in 2026 to date. The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months stands at eight awards valued at $693 thousand combined — a low-pressure cliff reflecting the purchase-order and short-completion-date structure of Bruker Nano's portfolio. Award concentration by NAICS skews toward Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (211 awards), with secondary clusters in equipment repair and maintenance (52 awards) and optical instruments (26 awards). PSC category distribution mirrors this: Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (151 awards), maintenance and repair (73 awards), and optical test equipment (33 awards) dominate. The source lists Veeco Instruments Inc. as the parent vendor; Bruker Nano operates as a subsidiary alongside Bruker AXS LLC and Bruker Spatial Biology, Inc. within the Veeco corporate structure.