Masstech, Inc.

Masstech, Inc., doing business as Analytical Instrumentation, manufactures and sells mass spectrometry instruments and related analytical equipment to federal agencies as a prime contractor. The company is a small disadvantaged business and Asian-Pacific American owned entity based in Columbia, Maryland, competing predominantly on full-and-open procurements (95% of recent awards carry no set-aside designation) rather than reserved set-asides.

Masstech's federal footprint centers on scientific instrumentation sales to research and development customers across civilian agencies. The company supplies ion trap mass spectrometers, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) systems, ambient ionization sources, and related mass spectrometry equipment. Recent representative work includes a $349,900 purchase order from the Food and Drug Administration (awarded August 2026) for two MassTech Explorer 30 Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer instruments with computer systems, software, installation, operator training, and a 12-calendar-month service warranty; a $219,000 Office of Naval Research purchase order (September 2024) for a portable ion trap mass spectrometer; and a $109,765 total small business set-aside purchase order from USDA Agricultural Research Service (September 2024) for a MALDI Mass Spectrometer system delivered to the Glenside, Pennsylvania facility to support crop science and food safety research. Earlier work included a $55,972 National Institute of Standards and Technology purchase order (May 2023) for a gas-free, solvent-free ambient ionization mass spectrometry source.

Customer concentration is fragmented across research agencies. The top customer by award count, the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, accounts for 11 of 40 total awards but ranks fourth by potential value. The top customer by potential value is the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory ($2 million across one award, 33% of combined potential value). The top five agencies by potential value span Air Force, Navy, NASA Goddard and Langley, and FDA, collectively representing 83% of recent dollars. NASA Langley places the most Navy awards (3 awards, $825 thousand). Activity has been episodic—only 4 awards in 2024 and 1 in 2026 across a 40-award history starting in 2005—but the combined dollars obligated exceed the combined potential value ($8.9 million obligated against $6 million potential), signaling that invoiced revenue from older awards continues to flow. One award ($350 thousand combined potential value) faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months.

Masstech subcontracts minimally (5% of recent work). The vendor delivered toxin-detector materials as a sub under The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on a December 2024 sub task, and participated as a core team member of the Massachusetts Manufacturing Emergency Response Team under a University of Massachusetts prime grant recipient role (April 2023), managing databases and supply-chain coordination for manufacturers pivoting to pandemic response production.

The company's NAICS split shows roughly equal weight to analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (9 awards) and research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (9 awards), with PSC concentration in laboratory equipment and supplies (7 awards) and space research and development services (6 awards).

MassTech Inc., located in Columbia, Maryland USA, (formerly Mass Technologies) is a privately owned analytical instrumentation and technology company incorporated in 2001 for developing AP MALDI, field deployable ion trap mass spectrometer, and conducting on-going research and development in support of product lines.

MassTech is the only licensed manufacturer of AP MALDI ion sources. MassTech's AP MALDI ion source product has been adapted to commercial mass spectrometers from major equipment manufacturers: Agilent, Sciex, Bruker Daltonics, JEOL, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Waters, for both OEM and direct sales around the world.

MassTech's new MT Explorer 50 ion trap mass spectrometer offers desktop performance in a transportable package, has customizable software, and has potential for a variety of applications. Its compact design is ideal for field use and its MS? capability is great for structure elucidations and chemical and biological identifications.