Elephint LLC

Elephint LLC, a small-business sole proprietorship based in Orlando, Florida, develops advanced optical and photonic technologies for defense research and development, competing exclusively as a prime contractor under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. All seven awards in the source are set-aside for total small business, and the vendor has no presence on government-wide vehicles, IDIQs, BPAs, or other parent contract infrastructure — it bids directly into DoD Small Business R&D solicitations.

Elephint's capability portfolio centers on semiconductor optical amplifiers, silicon photonic integrated wavefront sensing systems, and related cutting-edge optical engineering for military applications. The vendor's recent work includes a $2.09 million firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Department of the Army on April 13, 2026, for multi-channel amplification on chip for scalable quantum and defense applications under the DoD Small Business Innovation Research program; a $1.15 million STTR Phase II award from the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command through April 2027 for optically-pumped, low-noise, high-power semiconductor optical amplifiers; and a $2 million SBIR Phase II contract from the Office of Naval Research with performance through September 2028, also focused on R&D in optical and photonic technologies. The Naval Air Warfare Center awarded a $240 thousand SBIR Phase I contract in October 2025, and the Air Force Research Laboratory issued a $180 thousand SBIR Phase I purchase order in April 2024 for silicon photonic integrated wavefront sensing systems using modal decomposition.

Customer concentration spans five DoD agencies with Navy (Office of Naval Research and Naval Air Warfare Center) and Army (DEVCOM and Army prime procurement) anchoring the portfolio. The Office of Naval Research accounts for two awards and $2.2 million in combined potential value; the Department of the Army holds the single largest award ($2.1 million) and represents 36% of combined potential value across the portfolio. The Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (two awards, $1.3 million) and smaller contributions from Naval Air Warfare Center and Air Force Research Laboratory round out the customer set.

Activity has grown modestly — one award annually in 2022 and 2023, two awards in each of 2024 and 2025, and one in 2026 — with combined potential value of $6.1 million across the seven awards. Three awards worth $3.5 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. All work to date has been primary research, development, and engineering across the physical sciences and defense applied research PSC codes; the vendor carries no subcontract footprint and no teaming relationships in the source data.