Infleqtion Quantum, LLC

Infleqtion Quantum, LLC (doing business as Infleqtion) is a small-business quantum-information-products manufacturer based in Boulder, Colorado that serves as a prime contractor on research, development, and production contracts for quantum sensing, quantum computing, optical atomic clocks, and related quantum information systems across defense and civilian federal agencies. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides and does not hold SBA 8(a) or other socioeconomic certifications; it operates primarily on its own delivery teams with minimal subcontractor engagement.

Infleqtion's customer base is heavily concentrated in defense and space R&D. The NASA Shared Services Center leads by potential value at $57.5 million across ten awards, anchored by a $52.9 million SBIR Phase III definitive contract (awarded July 2024) for quantum gravity gradiometer application technology maturation and design based on atom-chip architecture, performed through December 2027 with subcontractors including Define Design Deploy Corp., Monarch Quantum, Inc., and Jemba9 Technology Corporation. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency follows with twelve awards valued at $29.8 million, including a $2 million OTA for Heterogeneous Architectures for Quantum (HARQ) awarded February 2026 and scheduled through February 2028. The Department of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command accounts for eleven awards ($12.5 million combined), including a $10.9 million SBIR Phase III contract for rack-mount optical clocks (awarded September 2024, completing September 2026) and a $2 million SBIR Phase II contract for secured AI defending positioning/navigation/timing systems against adversarial attacks. The Air Force Research Laboratory holds fourteen awards ($9 million), topped by a $1.9 million STTR Phase II contract for Tiqker optical clock technology in support of GPS III Follow-On (awarded October 2024, completing October 2026). The Office of Naval Research accounts for twenty-two awards ($4.7 million), predominantly small purchase orders for quantum hardware and systems; a $240,000 definitive contract for quantum technology R&D support (awarded November 2024) and a $76,290 purchase order (June 2024) are representative. The National Institute of Standards and Technology holds eleven awards ($685 thousand), including a $418,750 Total Small Business purchase order awarded September 2026 for portable optical atomic clocks to upgrade official U.S. time, requiring delivery within 12–18 weeks and completing February 2027. The top five customers by potential value account for 91% of combined dollars.

Activity has accelerated sharply: two awards in 2022, four in 2023, and eleven in 2024, before moderating to four in 2025 and five through September 2026. This trajectory masks significant recompete exposure: five awards valued at $57.2 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, including the $52.9 million NASA gravity gradiometer contract and the $10.9 million Army rack-mount optical clocks SBIR. Recent vehicle expansion includes Infleqtion's inaugural seat on the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, a multi-billion-dollar multiple-award vehicle effective December 2025 through December 2035, with an initial $500 task order already issued under full-and-open competition.

Beyond prime contracts, Infleqtion holds federal grant positions. In January 2026, the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $5.95 million Cooperative Agreement under CFDA 81.135 for ENCODE (Enhancing Neutral-Atom Computers for Optimizing Delivery of Energy), a quantum-computing project for energy-grid optimization running through January 2029. In September 2024, the Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a project grant for SMART STACK (Scalable, Modular, Adaptable, Reconfigurable, Error-Targeted Approaches to Quantum Stack Design) through August 2027. The NASA Shared Services Center awarded a $1.2 million grant for QUARREM (Quantum Atomic Rydberg Radiometer for Earth Measurements) in February 2023, completing February 2026. Infleqtion also subcontracts on federal grants: it performs laser-development and local-oscillator integration work under multiple sub-awards to the University of Virginia (including a February 2025 sub-award for E-DBR integrated laser and TFLN-based local oscillator development) and participates in Semi-led projects such as Photonically Integrated Vacuum Optical Technologies. On prime contracts, Infleqtion subcontracts to Oak Ridge National Laboratory for quantum systems center management (sub-award June 2026 under UT-Battelle LLC leadership).

Service Contract Inventory data shows Infleqtion reported $3 million in SCI-invoiced revenue across prime records from FY2022 through FY2025, with $2 million in FY2022 (4.4 FTEs) and $1.1 million in FY2023 (3.9 FTEs); no invoicing appeared in FY2024 or FY2025 in SCI records, consistent with the shift toward R&D contracts and grants over service contracts. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work span a median of $170.42/hr, ranging from $138.58/hr at the 10th percentile to $269.56/hr at the 90th percentile. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed roughly 8% of total hours, with one named subcontractor recorded — confirming Infleqtion's build-to-own-delivery-team posture.

Infleqtion's primary NAICS profile is Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (29 awards), followed by Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (44 awards combined across three closely related codes). The PSC portfolio emphasizes Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (21 awards), Space R&D Services (7 awards), and Optical Instruments and Test Equipment (6 awards), with defense R&D services accounting for a smaller sub-set. The combined potential value across all 103 awards is $124.7 million, with $113.4 million obligated (91% realization), and the vendor has served nineteen distinct federal agencies over the source period.

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