Fibertek, Inc.

Fibertek, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation and small business manufacturer of advanced photonics, laser systems, and electro-optical sensors based in Herndon, Virginia, competes predominantly as a prime contractor (97% of awards) on research and development, engineering services, and optical instrument manufacturing for the Department of Defense and NASA, with the vast majority of work awarded under small-business set-asides or full-and-open competition on R&D vehicles.

The company's capability portfolio centers on fiber lasers, lidar systems, optical communications, laser remote sensing, high-energy laser optimization, and space-qualified optical systems for defense and space applications. Representative recent work includes a $49.8 million Army delivery order (March 2025) for validation of innovative research, technical utilization, and engineering (VIRTUE) under the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3) IDIQ on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis; an $8 million NASA Goddard Space Flight Center definitive contract (August 2024) for the Edge Laser Engineering Test Unit and Beam Dithering Units concept study and phase B bridge effort for the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer mission; a $3.6 million Phase III SBIR contract (September 2025) from NASA's Shared Services Center for the High-Altitude Water Vapor and Ocean (HAWC) Transmitter; and a $3.18 million Phase III SBIR award (April 2025) for ER:YAG laser transmitter design at technology readiness level 6.

Fibertek's customer base concentrates heavily on defense and space R&D. The top five agencies account for 63% of award count, led by the Department of the Army (359 awards, $185.3 million combined potential value) and the Army's Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (76 awards, $905.5 million combined potential value), followed by NASA's Shared Services Center (74 awards, $46.5 million), NASA Langley Research Center (43 awards, $10 million), and the Army's Communications Electronics Command (40 awards, $275.6 million). However, the potential-value rankings diverge sharply: the Army's Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground anchors $39.84 billion in combined potential value across 39 awards, and the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command carries $3.98 billion across 11 awards. This concentration reflects Fibertek's dominance on large defense platform development IDIQs rather than volume-based relationships.

Fibertek holds multiple parent vehicles serving as the foundation for task-order placement. The company secured an OASIS+ Total Small Business Multiple Award contract from GSA (December 2024) with a $999,999,999,999 ceiling extending through December 2029, covering seven functional domains including management and advisory, technical and engineering, research and development, intelligence services, environmental services, facilities, and logistics. The company was also recently awarded a position on the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ (December 2025) with a $151 billion ceiling and ten-year period of performance through December 2035, designed to procure research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity capabilities. Fibertek also places significant work under the Army's RS3 IDIQ, with 22 task orders carrying $735.5 million in combined potential value, and maintains positions on large Army-specific vehicles including Indefinite Delivery Contract DAAB0796DH753 (242 task orders) and DAAB0701DG602 (80 task orders, $105.2 million combined potential value).

Activity has remained relatively stable year over year — 13 to 17 awards annually across the past five years — though 2026 shows only three awards to date (as of late September). The recompete cliff for the next twenty-four months stands at 13 awards with combined potential value of $274.9 million, a moderate near-term obligation.

SCI-reported invoicing across federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $57 million cumulatively from FY2022 to FY2025, a narrow slice of Fibertek's broader federal footprint dominated by large IDIQ vehicles and equipment manufacturing. The SCI dataset shows roughly 26 FTEs delivered in FY2022 declining to approximately 21 FTEs in FY2025, with government-paid hourly rates ranging from a median around $140.96/hr to a 90th percentile of $612.84/hr on self-performed labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for approximately 14% of contractor hours, with 32 named subcontractors reported, indicating that Fibertek retains core photonics and laser development in-house and uses subs for supplemental engineering and systems integration support. The vendor subcontracts to primes including Radiance Technologies (high-energy laser division support), Valkyrie Enterprises (DoD research work), Marvin Engineering (MIT Lincoln Laboratory R&D), Gryphon Aerospace (directed energy technology maturation), and Columbus Technologies (space systems design and development).

Fibertek's award portfolio spans research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (193 awards), engineering services (57 awards), and optical instrument and lens manufacturing (24 awards), with PSC codes concentrated on support-professional engineering and technical services (354 awards), space R&D services (76 awards), and defense systems electronics and communications R&D across basic, applied, and advanced development phases (132 awards combined). The company competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on SBIR and STTR vehicles, with growing exposure to full-and-open large IDIQ platforms (RS3, SHIELD, OASIS+) where set-asides do not apply, positioning Fibertek as a small-business prime with credible scale on enterprise defense R&D contracts.