Light Conversion-Usa, Inc.

Light Conversion-Usa, Inc., a for-profit specialized laser and optical systems manufacturer headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, operates exclusively as a prime contractor in the federal market, delivering advanced laser systems and precision optical instruments for research and development applications across civilian science agencies without set-aside participation.

The company's capability portfolio centers on ultra-short pulse (USP) lasers, femtosecond laser systems, optical parametric amplifiers (OPA), and spectroscopic laser sources engineered for federal laboratory and metrology use. Representative prime awards include a $380,040 CHIPS R&D purchase order from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for laser and optical parametric amplifiers designed for multiphoton microscopy (April 2026); a $410,750 NIST contract for a high-power, high repetition-rate near-infrared femtosecond laser system for terahertz spectroscopy and imaging (September 2023); a $331,810 Office of Naval Research purchase order for a PHAROS-UP high-repetition-rate wavelength-tunable ultrafast amplified laser system with ORPHEUS-NEO-UP near-IR and visible OPA (November 2023); a $287,790 NIST CHIPS R&D award for a pulsed ultraviolet light source for atom probe tomography in semiconductor manufacturing metrology (August 2024); and a $174,000 Army Research, Development and Engineering Command purchase order for a mid-wave infrared ultra-short pulse laser source (September 2026). All awards are firm-fixed-price purchase orders with no set-aside designations, consistent with the vendor's competitive posture in full-and-open procurements.

Customer concentration is modest and distributed across federal research agencies. NIST leads by combined potential value (3 awards, $1.1 million), while the Office of Naval Research leads by award count (5 awards, $934 thousand). The Naval Air Warfare Center, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Army RDECOM each represent single awards. The five agencies account for 100% of recent awards. Primary NAICS concentration aligns with the vendor's core capability: 9 of 11 awards fall under NAICS 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing), with secondary categories in electromedical apparatus and electrical measurement instruments.

Activity remains sparse and episodic. The company recorded one award in 2020 and 2022, three in both 2023 and 2024, and three in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all eleven awards totals $2.7 million with $2.7 million obligated (99% realization), and the company serves five distinct federal agencies. Two awards (combined potential value $668 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. Light Conversion-Usa, Inc. does not subcontract and carries no parent vehicle positions; all work flows as direct purchase orders from federal agencies, reflecting the specialized, single-source nature of advanced laser procurement and the vendor's technical differentiation in ultrafast optics for government R&D.