Firebird Optics LLC

Firebird Optics LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Northport, New York, manufactures and supplies high-precision optical components, scientific instruments, and ancillary defense logistics materials to the federal government as a prime contractor across 184 awards in the past three years. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements, though it has captured several Total Small Business set-aside orders.

Firebird Optics' capability portfolio centers on optical manufacturing—lenses, prisms, optical windows, filters, compensators, refractometers, and related optical assemblies used in targeting systems, rangefinders, night vision technologies, and airborne platforms. Representative work includes a $52,635 purchase order from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Land and Maritime for optic cell assemblies (awarded March 2025), a $45,510 DLA contract for optical lenses and instruments (November 2025), and a $39,742 firm-fixed-price order for optical lenses under Total Small Business set-aside (September 2025). The vendor also supplies ancillary defense logistics commodities—calibrating oils, lubricating oils, laboratory syringes, needles, pipettes, and silhouette targets—reflecting a broader role as a component and supply-chain vendor across multiple DLA divisions. NASA contracts show optical-manufacturing capability beyond defense: a $27,206 order from NASA's Shared Services Center for a 300mm cryogenic vacuum chamber window (May 2024) and a $17,960 contract for magnesium fluoride windows (November 2023).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Defense Logistics Agency subdivisions. DLA Aviation accounts for 71 awards with $411 thousand combined potential value; DLA Troop Support Medical commands 54 awards but only $18 thousand; DLA Land and Maritime holds 47 awards valued at $553 thousand. Combined, these three DLA subdivisions represent 98% of award count but only 7% of total potential value. The Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center dominates dollar concentration with 3 awards worth $15 million combined—driven entirely by a single-award $4.999 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) running through May 2028, awarded May 2023 under Total Small Business set-aside. Two additional awards against that BPA (May 2025 and July 2024, both government purchase card calls) carry the same $4.999 million ceiling, reflecting the structure of the ordering vehicle. NASA Shared Services Center and West Point Military Academy account for the remaining awards.

Firebird Optics holds two parent vehicles: the Naval Air Warfare Center BPA (ceiling $4.999 million, single-award, Total Small Business set-aside, through May 2028) and a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Aviation (ceiling $350 thousand, no set-aside, through February 2027, awarded February 2026). The vast majority of awards are firm-fixed-price purchase orders ranging from single-digit dollars to $851 thousand, issued directly by DLA divisions rather than as task orders against larger vehicles.

Activity has grown sharply from 21 awards in 2023 to 82 in 2025, though 2026 shows only 23 awards in the source snapshot (covering through mid-April). Within the next twenty-four months, nine awards with combined potential value of $278 thousand face ultimate completion dates, presenting modest recompete exposure. The vendor carries no subcontract footprint in the source data—all 184 awards reflect prime performance.

Category concentration by award count clusters around aircraft accessories, laboratory equipment, optical instruments, lubricating oils, and medical supplies (NAICS codes 336412, 333298, 333314, 324191, 339112; PSC codes 1680, 6510, 6630, 9150, 6515). The footprint reflects component and commodity supply to defense operations rather than systems integration or large vehicle participation. Dollar concentration in the Navy BPA stands apart: that single vehicle represents 92% of total potential value across the portfolio, while the remaining 181 awards average under $9 thousand each.

Designers and distributers of optical components for IR and laser assemblies as well producing custom windows, lenses, beamsplitters, and mirrors.

Specializes in the following FSC/PSC codes:

1240

5855

6650

6920

9340

We are ITAR-compliant, JCP/eJCP-certified and ISO9001 certified.