Metrolaser, Incorporated

Metrolaser, Incorporated, doing business as Metro Laser Inc., a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Laguna Hills, California, delivers advanced optical diagnostic and sensing technologies to defense and aerospace agencies as a prime contractor under SBIR, STTR, and other-transaction authority, competing exclusively under total small business set-asides across its federal footprint.

Metrolaser specializes in high-speed digital holography, wavefront sensing, plasma diagnostics, and spectroscopic measurement systems for hypersonic and extreme-environment characterization. Representative capability work includes a $1.99 million Office of Naval Research STTR Phase II contract awarded September 30, 2025, for development of advanced sensing technologies in naval applications; a $1.25 million Air Force Research Laboratory other-transaction agreement awarded September 18, 2025, to develop an airborne supersonic platform for testing advanced wavefront sensors targeting hypersonic and ballistic missile tracking; two NASA SBIR Phase II contracts (one for $899,959 on nonintrusive diagnosis of ejecta cloud from plume surface interactions using high-speed digital holography, the other for $899,982 on laser-induced incandescence sensor for soot particle size and concentration, both awarded August 2025); and a $3.01 million Missile Defense Agency STTR Phase II cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded June 24, 2022, for nonintrusive diagnosis of debris from hypervelocity impacts using ultrahigh-speed digital holography. The company also holds a $151 billion Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ contract awarded December 29, 2025, running through December 28, 2035, structured for full and open competition across research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, and production work in multi-domain defense.

Customer concentration sits heavily with defense and space R&D agencies. The top five funding entities by award count and potential value overlap substantially: the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory anchors 57 awards valued at $22.4 million combined potential value; the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center accounts for 13 awards worth $11.4 million; the Missile Defense Agency placed 8 awards valued at $5.9 million; NASA's Shared Services Center issued 15 awards worth $5.6 million; and the Department of the Navy's Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center awarded 13 contracts valued at $4.3 million. These five entities account for 69% of combined potential value. Additional federal agency relationships include the Department of the Army, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and the Department of the Interior.

Activity trajectory shows steady engagement: three awards in 2021, ramping to six in 2022, six in 2023, eight in 2024, and seven in 2025. Within the next twenty-four months, six awards with combined potential value of $3.9 million face ultimate completion and thus recompete exposure. Recent grant work includes two Department of Energy Office of Science project grants awarded July 22, 2024, for thermophysical structure of high-temperature molten salts and laser spectroscopic sensor development for rare earth element characterization in mining deposits, and an earlier February 14, 2022, Office of Science grant for robust split laser sensor development in harsh environment sensing applications running through September 2, 2026. Metrolaser competes 100% as prime across its federal portfolio with no subcontract exposure reflected in the source data. The vendor's NAICS concentration centers on Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences categories (110 awards combined), with smaller exposure in Engineering Services, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing, and Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing.

Research and development of Laser diagnostic measurement systems; nondestructive testing, holography, spectroscopy, laser vibrometer