Eastern Optx, Inc.

Eastern Optx, Inc. operates as a veteran-owned small business manufacturer of precision electronic test and measurement equipment, competing as a prime contractor on federal procurements (58% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major defense primes (42%). The firm is based in Fieldsboro, New Jersey, and manufactures specialized instrumentation including digital frequency stability analyzers, microwave phase noise analyzers, radar range simulators, and RF/microwave assemblies for defense and civilian federal customers.

Eastern Optx's prime work concentrates in small-business set-asides and open competitive procurements with the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command, the Department of the Navy, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Recent named prime awards include a $57,800 Total Small Business purchase order from NIST (May 2026) for a digital frequency stability and phase noise analyzer with completion scheduled for September 2026, and a $54,900 competitive purchase order from NIST (September 2025) for a microwave phase noise analyzer to support photonics and optomechanics research, with performance specifications for phase noise measurement, frequency stability characterization, and Allan deviation thresholds down to 5E-16 at 1000-second intervals. The firm also holds seats on a Navy Basic Ordering Agreement (N0001920G0005, 2 task orders) and an Air Force Indefinite Delivery Contract (W58RGZ18D0001, 1 task order).

Customer concentration clusters around defense platform sustainment. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 58% of recent awards, with the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command leading in both volume (4 awards) and combined potential value ($682 thousand), followed by the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command (4 awards by count; separate Naval Sea Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center sub-commands contribute $178 thousand and $119 thousand respectively). NIST represents the largest civilian customer footprint with two recent awards valued at $113 thousand combined. The Air Force Materiel Command Test Center contributes $675 thousand on a single award, underscoring concentration in military test-and-measurement work.

As a subcontractor, Eastern Optx supplies RF/microwave assemblies, radar range simulators, and peculiar support equipment to Raytheon (radar range simulator calibration and phase-two integration and test work, two awards from September 2024 and November 2025), Lockheed Martin (radar range simulator chassis and MK21A re-entry vehicle support, three awards from December 2023 through December 2024), Northrop Grumman (audio and video equipment manufacturing, two awards in October 2024), Boeing (peculiar support equipment for Royal Australian Air Force C-17 procurement, March 2025), Defense Systems And Solutions (combined altitude radar altimeter test set first-article testing, September 2025), and Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (machine parts for National Security Campus operations, April 2024). Award activity remains sporadic — one award in 2021, one in 2023, six in 2024, four in 2025, and one in 2026 — with recent momentum in defense sub-work outpacing prime activity. The combined potential value across all awards totals $2 million, but combined dollars obligated reach $20.9 million, indicating that obligated amounts on completed or ongoing work substantially exceed stated contract ceilings.

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