Nanohmics Inc.

Nanohmics Inc., a for-profit small business based in Austin, Texas, provides advanced research and development in electronics, optics, sensors, imaging systems, and thermal management as a prime contractor across defense and civilian federal agencies, competing predominantly under small business set-asides (Total Small Business and SBIR/STTR designations characterize 99% of awards).

Nanohmics operates as a pure prime (99% of 328 awards), with negligible subcontractor activity. The vendor's portfolio spans 23 years of federal work, but activity has declined sharply in recent years — from 31 awards in 2022 to just 4 in 2026 year-to-date. The 15 awards reaching ultimate completion within the next 24 months carry combined potential value of $12.7 million, presenting recompete exposure in Nanohmics' core markets.

The vendor's customer concentration sits across defense and civilian research agencies rather than a single dominant buyer. The top five customers by award count account for 47% of the 328 awards: the Air Force Research Laboratory leads with 57 awards ($18.9 million combined potential value), followed by NASA Shared Services Center (40 awards, $11.1 million), Army RDECOM (22 awards, $10.1 million), Army Medical Command (20 awards, $5.5 million), and Office of Naval Research (14 awards, $6.7 million). By potential value, Defense Health Agency ranks second overall with 6 awards worth $11.8 million. Nanohmics serves 60 distinct federal agencies across its footprint. The portfolio tilts heavily toward research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (NAICS 541713 and 541714 account for 231 of 328 awards).

Nanohmics' core capability set centers on SBIR Phase I and Phase II contracts, with smaller presence in STTR and direct R&D awards. Recent representative work includes a $1.5 million OSD contract for inversely-designed dispersion-engineered electrically small antennas (awarded July 2025, completing October 2027); a $1.975 million Marine Corps SBIR Phase II for multi-color long-wave infrared imagers (awarded June 2025); a $1.441 million MDA STTR Phase II for conformal tri-band antenna development (awarded November 2024); and a $1.315 million Army RDECOM contract for millimeter-wave imaging with high electron mobility transistors (awarded September 2024). The vendor also holds a $151 billion Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract under the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) vehicle, awarded December 29, 2025, with ultimate completion in 2035 and an initial delivery order of $500 (firm fixed price). This IDIQ encompasses R&D, prototyping, systems engineering, and modernization across air, missile, space, and cyber domains.

Federal grant activity is secondary. Nanohmics has received four grants in the source window: a $1.047 million CDC project grant for lateral flow-electrochemiluminescent test strips for foodborne pathogen detection (awarded September 2025, completing September 2027); a $206.5 thousand DOE Office of Science project grant for thermoelectric ocean energy harvesters (awarded July 2024); and two earlier grants from NIH entities (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences) for cryocooling therapy devices and portable optical imaging for pathogen detection.

Service Contract Inventory data spanning FY2022–FY2024 shows $3.4 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across 16 prime records, with FY2023 representing the peak ($2.9 million, 7.6 FTEs). The vendor shows no sub-hours engagement on SCI-reportable primes. Median government-paid rates for labor run around $204.15/hr, with the 90th percentile reaching $371.48/hr. SCI is a strict subset of Nanohmics' federal revenue and does not capture the majority of its R&D contract portfolio, which operates outside the $150,000 reporting threshold for service contracts.

Nanohmics competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides, with SBIR/STTR vehicles (particularly through AFRL, NASA, and Army RDECOM) anchoring the award distribution. The vendor does not hold positions on government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs) or large-scale BPAs; its vehicle portfolio consists primarily of single-award or topic-specific Small Business Innovation Research vehicles and the newly awarded SHIELD IDIQ.