Lumibird Inc.

Lumibird Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit organization headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, manufactures and supplies specialized laser systems and optical equipment to federal agencies as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards). The company does not operate under SBA set-aside categories and competes in full-and-open procurements; the vendor holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Naval Observatory valued at $479,694.94 running through September 2029, and places task orders under a small number of Navy and defense-related IDCs.

Lumibird's federal footprint centers on goods procurement rather than services. The vendor delivers pulsed fiber lasers, continuous-wave fiber lasers, scanning Doppler wind lidars, erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, tunable laser systems, diode-pumped Nd:YAG lasers, and related optical diagnostic equipment to research and defense customers. Representative recent work includes a $652,900 purchase order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for two scanning Doppler lidars (September 2023), a $519,040 order from NASA Langley Research Center for two scanning Doppler wind lidars (April 2023), a $346,650 wind lidar system for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (August 2023), a $135,045.86 Nd:YAG and dye laser system for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (August 2024), and a $110,190 purchase order from NASA for two DPSS 266nm lasers (September 2025). More recently, Lumibird delivered a $42,350 CFR400 SB 1064nm 400mJ multimode advanced target laser system to Naval Sea Systems Command (April 2026).

Customer concentration is distributed across federal research and defense agencies. The top five customers account for 74% of combined potential value, with the Office of Naval Research anchoring 48 awards worth $976 thousand, followed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (10 awards, $900 thousand), the Naval Observatory (4 awards, $844 thousand), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (18 awards, $770 thousand), and NASA Langley Research Center (1 award, $519 thousand). The Office of Naval Research's dominant position reflects both volume and consistent repeat procurement of fiber laser systems and optical components; NOAA and NASA represent large individual awards for specialized lidars and laser systems rather than volume relationships. The Naval Observatory IDC is a five-year sole-source vehicle allowing the Observatory to issue task orders on an as-needed basis for fiber laser systems meeting specific technical specifications (780.24 nm center wavelength, 3 mW continuous wave, compact 3U form factor).

Award activity grew from 6 awards in 2022 to a peak of 15 in 2024, then declined to 10 in 2025 and 2 in the first quarter of 2026; the vendor's recent awards are predominantly purchase orders with completion dates ranging from immediate to within six months. Lumibird operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor, subcontracting in only 6% of its award count (9 sub-awards) to other prime contractors including Federal Express Corporation, The Aerospace Corporation, Valkyrie Enterprises, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Atlantic Diving Supply, Arete Associates, and HII Technical Solutions Corporation for work supporting Army ground vehicle protection, aerospace engineering, optical equipment integration, and missile systems development. The subcontract work indicates Lumibird serves as a specialized laser-systems component supplier within larger defense and aerospace platform programs rather than as a service subcontractor.

SCI-reportable service contract activity is minimal: two records totaling $653 thousand in invoiced revenue in FY2023, with zero in FY2024. Government-paid rates on the single SCI-reportable contract ran $1,813.61 per hour. Lumibird's federal revenue base is dominated by goods purchases and product delivery rather than labor-intensive service contracts, which explains the sparse SCI footprint. The vendor serves 30 distinct federal customer agencies across a diversified set of research, atmospheric science, defense research, and military application programs, with no single agency relationship driving more than 48 awards.