Fibertek, Inc.

Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced photonics and laser systems based in Herndon, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor (97% of awards) developing lidar, fiber lasers, electro-optical sensors, and space-qualified optical systems for the Department of Defense, NASA, and allied federal agencies under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open competitions. The company is a Subchapter S Corporation and for-profit organization with a small business designation that competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on SBIR/STTR programs and full-and-open on large IDIQ vehicles.

Fibertek's capability portfolio centers on laser remote sensing, lidar technology maturation, optical communications, directed-energy components, and electro-optical sensor development grounded in 940 federal awards spanning four decades. Representative prime work includes a $49.8 million Army delivery order for R&D services validating innovative research and engineering (VIRTUE) under the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3) IDIQ issued March 2025; a $65.5 million Army delivery order for helmet-mounted augmented-reality displays with interactive computing under RS3 (August 2023); a $3.64 million Phase III SBIR contract from NASA's Shared Services Center for the High-Altitude Water Vapor and Ocean (HAWC) Transmitter development (September 2025); a $231,212 definitive contract from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for lidar components in the Small All-Range Lidar for Mars (SALI-M) instrument (July 2026); and a $249,893 DARPA purchase order for high-power fiber amplifier power scaling under the SIBR 2025.4 program (February 2026). Fibertek also holds a recent Phase II SBIR for a compact lidar spectrometer supporting Mars and lunar in-situ resource utilization applications ($849,371, September 2025) and a Phase II SBIR for optical wireless technology for lunar-to-Mars communications ($849,622, August 2025).

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated in Army programs. The top five funding entities account for 99% of combined potential value, led by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground with 39 awards carrying $39.84 billion in combined potential value (driven primarily by large IDIQ ceiling values), followed by the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (11 awards, $3.98 billion), Army Research Development and Engineering Command (75 awards, $864.4 million), Army Communications Electronics Command (41 awards, $297.3 million), and Army PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors (20 awards, $201.8 million). By award count, the Army proper carries 359 awards at $185.3 million, RDECOM 75 awards at $864.4 million, and NASA Shared Services Center 73 awards at $46.3 million. The potential-value ranking reflects the $151 billion SHIELD IDIQ ceiling awarded by the Missile Defense Agency (December 2025) and the $999,999,999,999 ceiling placeholder on the OASIS+ Small Business contract (December 2024), both of which anchor the dollar profile despite representing multi-year vehicles with nominal task-order activity to date.

Fibertek holds positions on five primary parent IDIQs: a massive 242-task-order indefinite delivery contract (DAAB0796DH753, Army) with $105.2 million combined potential value on a second vehicle (DAAB0701DG602, 80 task orders), the Warrior Enabling Broad Sensor Support Services vehicle (52 task orders, $378.6 million), the Army W15P7T08DP416 IDIQ (29 task orders, $242.4 million), and the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services IDIQ (22 task orders, $732.6 million). Fibertek also sits on the GSA OASIS+ Small Business IDIQ (awarded December 2024, $999,999,999,999 ceiling, five-year base plus one-year option through December 2029) and the Missile Defense Agency SHIELD program IDIQ (awarded December 2025, $151 billion ceiling, ten-year period through December 2035). These vehicles position Fibertek to compete across management advisory, technical/engineering, research and development, intelligence, environmental, facilities, and logistics domains across civilian and defense agencies.

Activity volume has remained relatively flat over the past five years — 13 awards in 2022, 17 in 2023, 16 in 2024, 16 in 2025, and 2 awards captured so far in 2026 — indicating steady delivery-order utilization across existing IDIQ vehicles rather than new prime contract awards. Within the next twenty-four months, 18 awards carrying combined potential value of $339.9 million reach ultimate completion, representing a material recompete exposure for Fibertek across Army R&D and systems engineering domains.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue shows $48.3 million across prime contracts in FY2022–FY2024, with FY2023 peak invoicing of $22.7 million across 62 FTEs, declining to $14.6 million in FY2024 across 57.3 FTEs. The FTE trajectory across prime records declined from 26.2 in FY2022 to 19.8 in FY2024, indicating contraction in federal service-contract delivery. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile floor of $0.00/hr (indicating fixed-price delivery or zero-dollar records) to a median of $151.13/hr and a 90th percentile ceiling of $642.55/hr, reflecting a mix of junior technical labor and senior engineering oversight. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, an average of 16% of contractor hours came from named subcontractors — Fibertek reports 27 distinct subcontractor relationships across this dataset — signaling that Fibertek predominantly self-performs core laser and photonics work while leveraging subs for supplemental engineering and systems integration support.

Fibertek subcontracts to larger primes on space and defense research programs. Named sub relationships include Columbus Technologies and Services, Inc. on space flight hardware development (electrical/electronic engineering support, July 2025); Valkyrie Enterprises, LLC on Department of Defense research (May 2025); Marvin Engineering Co, Inc. on MIT Lincoln Laboratory research and development (July 2024); Gryphon Aerospace, LLC on directed-energy technology maturation and illuminator laser scaling (March 2024); and Radiance Technologies Inc. on high-energy laser (HEL) division support across multiple awards (February 2023 base-period labor providing scientific, engineering, and technical assistance to HEL weapon technology development). Fibertek also served as a sub-recipient on a Southwest Research Institute grant for Deep-UV and Visible Laser maturation to TRL Level 6 (June 2024), indicating participation in Phase II SBIR follow-on commercialization chains.

By NAICS code, Fibertek's work splits primarily across research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (193 awards), engineering services (57 awards), and optical instrument and lens manufacturing (24 awards). By PSC, the profile is dominated by support/professional engineering and technical services (354 awards) and space R&D services (76 awards), with applied research and exploratory development in defense systems electronics and communications (45 awards) and advanced development (39 awards) rounding out the technical portfolio. The company's strategy emphasizes small-business reserved SBIR/STTR exploration of early-stage photonics (Phase I/II maturation), followed by Phase III commercialization and scaling under firm-fixed-price task orders on Army and Space Development Agency vehicles, with selected sub roles on large NASA and defense system integration primes.