Infleqtion Quantum, LLC

Coldquanta, Inc., doing business as Infleqtion, is a small business manufacturer of quantum information products and advanced quantum technologies that operates as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) across defense, civilian research, and energy agencies, with a heavy concentration in SBIR and STTR research programs and a growing presence on federal IDIQs. The company competes predominantly full-and-open and under Total Small Business set-asides; it does not hold SBA 8(a) or other socioeconomic certifications.

Infleqtion develops and delivers miniature ion trap systems, optical frequency standards, quantum sensing hardware, quantum computing platforms using neutral-atom architectures, atomic physics packages, laser systems, and specialized physics packages for position/navigation/timing applications. Representative work spans a $20 million NASA Phase III SBIR for quantum gravity gradiometer application technology maturation (atom-chip based), a $10.9 million Army RDECOM Phase III SBIR for rack-mount optical clocks, a $5.27 million ARPA-E Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.135) for the ENCODE project on neutral-atom quantum computing applied to energy grid optimization, and a $1.75 million DARPA Phase II SBIR for optical frequency standard module development. The company also holds a $2 million Naval Air Warfare Center cost-plus-fixed-fee R&D contract and a $2 million DARPA Other Transaction Agreement for the Heterogeneous Architectures for Quantum (HARQ) effort. All work is performed in Boulder, Colorado.

Infleqtion's customer base concentrates heavily on defense and energy research agencies. DARPA leads by potential value ($29.8 million across 12 awards), followed by NASA Shared Services Center ($24.6 million across 10 awards), Army RDECOM ($12.5 million across 11 awards), and Air Force Research Laboratory ($9 million across 14 awards). The Office of Naval Research holds the second-largest award count (22 awards, $4.7 million combined potential value), reflecting sustained procurement of quantum sensing and communications components. Top NAICS categories reflect the vendor's hardware focus: Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (29 awards), Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (25 awards), and Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing (2 awards). The vendor serves 19 distinct federal agencies, with the top five accounting for 68% of award count.

Infleqtion recently entered the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ (ceiling $151 billion, effective December 29, 2025, through December 28, 2035) as a full-and-open prime contractor, with an initial task order valued at $500. This vehicle is positioned to support MDA's multi-domain defense requirements, leveraging Infleqtion's quantum sensing and communications capabilities for advanced layered-defense applications.

Activity has grown sharply year over year—two awards in 2022 to eleven in 2024—with six awards (combined potential value $36.8 million) completing within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure. The vendor operates primarily on its own delivery teams; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for roughly 9% of total contractor hours. Named subcontractors on recent large efforts include Vescent Photonics LLC (optical frequency comb and narrow-linewidth clock laser systems on the $1.75 million DARPA Phase II optical frequency standard contract), Define Design Deploy Corp. (PCA design on the NASA quantum gravity gradiometer contract), and Monarch Quantum, Inc. (laser optical systems on the same NASA effort). In grant work, Infleqtion subcontracts to the University of Virginia on laser and optical-component development tasks (E-DBR integrated lasers, TFLN-based local oscillators) under multiple university-prime grants in quantum photonics and quantum technologies.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue for federal service contracts above $150,000 reached $2 million in FY2022 and $1.1 million in FY2023, with no SCI-reportable activity in FY2024. On those SCI-captured prime contracts, median government-paid rates ran around $170/hr, with senior labor pricing through $270/hr. The vendor delivered roughly 3.3 to 3.9 FTEs annually on SCI-reportable contracts in FY2022–FY2023; SCI is a partial view that excludes goods, products, and non-service-revenue categories where Infleqtion conducts most of its federal business.

ColdQuanta focuses on the development, design and manufacture of instruments and systems destined for quantum technologies applications. We provide products and services for scientific and industrial applications such as cold atom experimentation, quantum simulation, quantum information processing, gravity sensors, atomic clocks and precision instrumentation.