Correlated Solutions Inc.

Correlated Solutions Inc., a for-profit small business headquartered in Irmo, South Carolina, manufactures and sells digital image correlation (DIC) systems—specialized optical measurement hardware and software for non-contact strain and deformation analysis—primarily to NASA and Department of Defense agencies as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) on sole-source purchase orders.

Correlated Solutions operates exclusively in full-and-open competition with no SBA set-aside designations in its prime footprint, though several awards carry "Total Small Business" designations reflecting the vendor's small-business status. The company's product portfolio centers on VIC-3D digital image correlation systems (hardware and software suites), Basler ACE2 cameras and related optical sensors, data acquisition hardware, high-temperature and underwater measurement packages, calibration systems, and maintenance and support services. Representative recent work includes a $111,990 purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center in September 2026 for a VIC-3D 11 software suite with ancillary modules and high-temperature UV DIC packages for use at NASA Langley Research Center; a $111,995 sole-source award from the Navy's Bureau of Naval Personnel in May 2025 for an underwater digital image correlation turnkey system for structural analysis at the Naval Academy; and a $163,775 award from the Federal Aviation Administration in July 2024 supporting the Full-Scale Aircraft Structural Test Evaluation and Research (FASTER) program.

Customer concentration clusters around research and testing organizations. The top five federal customers account for 58% of recent awards by count and 68% by potential value. NASA's Shared Services Center leads by award volume with 26 awards worth $1.4 million combined potential value, followed by NASA Langley Research Center (17 awards, $1 million) and the Army Materiel Command's Research Development and Engineering Command (17 awards, $2 million potential value). The Department of the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command has placed seven awards ($778 thousand), and the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology has placed eight awards ($654 thousand). The two rankings diverge slightly: NIST ranks fourth by count but does not appear in the top five by dollars, while Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory ranks outside the top-five count but third by potential value ($1.2 million across seven awards).

Correlated Solutions participates minimally in parent contract vehicles; the source identifies only two: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (80JSC022DA035) with one task order and an Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract with one task order. The vendor operates predominantly through direct purchase orders rather than against larger IDIQs or GWACs, which reflects the sole-source, commercial-item procurement posture that characterizes its federal business.

Activity has moderated from 12 awards in 2024 to seven in 2025 and five in the first nine months of 2026, though the trend spans only five years of recent source data and total obligated dollars ($10.6 million) slightly exceed combined potential value ($9.4 million), indicating some contract growth beyond initial ceiling. Only four awards (combined potential value $342 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, implying minimal near-term recompete exposure.

Correlated Solutions operates as a subcontractor in a secondary capacity: six sub-awards appear in the source, including work under Lockheed Martin on a VIC-3D DIC system upgrade for fiscal 2023 Trident programs and under Leidos on energetics research and development for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. The company's NAICS and PSC profile aligns with analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (33 awards) and measuring/controlling device manufacturing (33 awards), with secondary strength in software publishing (12 awards) and engineering services (8 awards). The PSC footprint emphasizes laboratory equipment and supplies (21 awards) and information technology software (13 awards).

We provide, digital camera based, non-contact, materials or products deformation measurement systems.