Imagine Optic Inc.

Imagine Optic Inc., a for-profit optical and photonics equipment manufacturer headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, supplies specialized imaging sensors, wavefront analysis modules, and adaptive optics hardware to federal research and defense agencies as a prime contractor on firm-fixed-price purchase orders. The vendor operates predominantly in full-and-open competition without set-aside designation across its federal footprint.

Imagine Optic's concrete capability set centers on optical instrumentation for precision imaging and metrology — Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors, adaptive optics retinal cameras, wavefront analysis software licenses, and transscleral flood illumination modules for research imaging systems. Representative prime work includes a $62,300 purchase order from the National Eye Institute (awarded September 2026) for a transscleral flood illumination module add-on to the RTX1 adaptive optics retinal camera, a $117,600 firm-fixed-price order from NIH's National Eye Institute (May 2024) for an RTX1-E AO retinal imaging camera upgrade, and a $67,650 purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command (August 2023) for Model HASO R-Flex 2 wavefront sensors supporting airborne high energy laser and naval adaptive optics testbed programs. A fourth prime award from NAVSEA (August 2024, $68,500) covered Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor delivery with perpetual analysis licensing.

Customer concentration is distributed across federal research and defense laboratories rather than anchored to one or two agencies. The National Eye Institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Naval Sea Systems Command appear among the top funding agencies by potential value, collectively accounting for roughly 49% of combined potential value across the portfolio. The National Eye Institute and NIST each hold two awards worth $180 thousand and $171 thousand respectively. Across 30 total awards spanning 20 distinct customer agencies, 90% are prime contracts and 10% are subcontracts.

Activity has been episodic — five awards in 2019, three in 2020, two in 2023, four in 2024, and one in 2026 — with only one award scheduled to complete within the next twenty-four months ($62 thousand potential value). The vendor's combined potential value portfolio stands at $1.6 million, though obligated dollars exceed that ceiling at $1.8 million, indicating scope drawdowns or close-out activity. In its subcontractor role, Imagine Optic has supplied optical equipment to Valkyrie Enterprises for MIT Lincoln Laboratory research and development work (June 2024), delivered HASO SWIR imaging sensors to Battelle Memorial Institute for microelectronics and embedded systems assurance (May 2024), and provided wavefront sensors to L3Harris Technologies for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope optical telescope assembly (May 2023). The vendor's NAICS profile is dominated by optical instrument and lens manufacturing (18 of 30 awards), with secondary exposure to analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing and medical imaging equipment.