Carl Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions LLC

Carl Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions LLC, a foreign-owned manufacturer and service provider based in Maple Grove, Minnesota, delivers precision metrology equipment—coordinate measuring machines, 3D optical scanners, and calibration and maintenance services—to the Department of Defense, NASA, and civilian federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (65% of recent awards) on full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designation. The vendor is a subsidiary of Carl Zeiss, Inc., a global parent headquartered in White Plains, New York.

The vendor's customer base concentrates heavily on defense and national security organizations. The top five customer agencies by award count and potential value account for 56% and 83% of recent awards respectively, anchored by the Department of the Army's Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (8 awards, $2.3 million combined potential value), the Department of the Navy's Naval Air Systems Command (7 awards, $1.6 million), and the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (14 awards, tracked by count but no disclosed dollar aggregate). Energy and national security agencies dominate volume—NNSA alone represents 20% of the 71 total awards in the source data. Army and Navy combined anchor 48% of disclosed potential value.

Recent representative work spans equipment procurement and technical services. Carl Zeiss holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Army Aviation and Missile Command valued at $416,028 through October 2027 for on-site repairs, preventative maintenance, and calibration of coordinate measuring machines at Corpus Christi Army Depot; three delivery orders totaling $247,802 have been issued against this vehicle as of the source date. In calendar 2026 alone, the vendor secured prime awards including a $1.38 million contract from Army Aviation and Missile Command for three years of CMM support services at Corpus Christi (March 2026), a $468,601 purchase order from Joint Munitions Command for CMM modernization at Crane Army Ammunition Activity (December 2025), and a $215,125 order from Army Test and Evaluation Command for a Zeiss Scan Box system installation at Aberdeen Test Center (August 2025). Civilian work includes sole-source extended warranty and software maintenance contracts with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center for ATOS and TRITOP hardware ($25,494 for FY26 and $34,646 for FY25) and calibration and maintenance services for the U.S. Mint's coordinate measuring machines (multiple contracts, $54,476 in March 2026 and $25,321 in October 2024).

Activity has accelerated year over year—three awards in 2022 to 22 in both 2024 and 2025—though the most recent twelve months show 13 awards (through July 2026). Nine awards with combined potential value of $1.7 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete exposure or contract renewals. The vendor competes on full-and-open procurements; no awards carry small-business set-aside designations.

As a subcontractor, Carl Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions supplies precision measurement equipment and calibration services to major defense primes. Named sub relationships include Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (CMM hardware, software maintenance, and on-site repair services under the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration management and operation contract for the Kansas City National Security Campus), Lockheed Martin Corporation (CALYPSO software, machine setup, and metrology services for PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 missile production), Fluor Marine Propulsion (Zeiss Contura coordinate measuring machines for Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program support), Southwest Research Institute (CMM equipment for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation research and development), and MIT Lincoln Laboratory (software maintenance for federally funded research and development). The sub footprint spans eight years with 25 sub awards tracked in the source.

Capability concentration aligns with the vendor's manufacturing and service posture. Top NAICS codes include Facilities Support Services (12 awards, reflecting on-site maintenance and calibration work), Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (11 awards, hardware procurement), Software Publishers (7 awards, CALYPSO, ATOS, and other proprietary software), and Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance (6 awards). Top PSC codes are Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment—Maintenance and Repair Shop Equipment (6 awards) and Measuring Tools (6 awards), with IT and Telecom service contracts accounting for 5 awards related to software support and help desk services.

The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures only one record above the $150,000 reporting threshold as of FY2025, in a named-subcontractor capacity, reflecting that much of Carl Zeiss's federal activity routes through product procurement, equipment sales, and sole-source technical services contracts below the SCI filing threshold or falls outside the SCI scope (goods, classified work, or non-federal revenue).