Motion Engineering Company

Motion Engineering Company, doing business as MEC High Speed Imaging Inc., is a small business based in Westfield, Indiana that sells high-speed imaging equipment — primarily Photron and Fastec camera systems, lighting, and accessories — to federal agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders. The company operates exclusively as a prime, with no subcontract footprint, and competes without set-aside designation on most awards, though it holds small business set-aside wins with NASA.

MEC functions as an exclusive value-added reseller for Photron USA and Fastec Imaging high-speed camera systems in the Midwest region, positioning itself as the sole-source provider for specialized imaging equipment to federal research and testing programs. Concrete recent work includes a $265.15 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order from NASA for a Photron E9-100SM216 high-speed camera system capable of capturing over 480,000 frames per second for electric propulsion diagnostics research at Glenn Research Center (awarded September 2025); a $112.42 thousand small business set-aside purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center for a high-speed photography camera and laser system to support arc fault testing on hybrid-electric aircraft systems (awarded June 2025, completed September 2025); and a $44.18 thousand full-and-open purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center for a Photron FASTCAM SA-Z memory and fast drive interface upgrade (awarded March 2026, completing June 2026). Additional work spans a $96.73 thousand purchase order from Air Force Materiel Command for a Fastcam SA-Z camera and accessories (December 2021), a $57.87 thousand NASA small business set-aside for a Photron NOVA R5 camera (August 2023), and a $40.04 thousand purchase order from Joint Munitions Command for specialized imaging equipment (March 2023).

Customer concentration is heavily skewed to NASA. NASA's Shared Services Center accounts for eight awards totaling $536 thousand (86% of recent award count, 55% of combined potential value), while NASA proper holds one additional award of $265 thousand. Together, the two NASA funding lines represent nine of fourteen total awards and roughly $801 thousand of the $971 thousand combined potential value. The Department of the Air Force, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, and Department of Agriculture round out the customer set but each represent single-digit thousand-dollar awards.

MEC does not sit on government-wide vehicles, BPAs, or agency IDIQs; all awards in the source are discrete purchase orders. Activity has been episodic — one award in 2021, one in 2022, three in 2023, none in 2024, two in 2025, and one in the first quarter of 2026 — with total obligated value of $971 thousand across fourteen awards since 2017. No awards are documented with ultimate completion dates extending more than a few months beyond the summary date, creating minimal recompete cliff exposure in the next twenty-four months.

Our attention to customer satisfaction, from the initial discussions about your applications to the delivery and training on your high speed camera system, guarantees that MEC will excel over and above any competitor. MEC is unique in that we can offer complete Turnkey Solutions to meet your specific needs. Ask us for a Reference. We look forward to providing you with a tool for success today and into the next century.For more information visit our website at http://www.highspeedimaging.com/