Nu-Tek Precision Optical Corp.

Nu-Tek Precision Optical Corp., operating as Nu TEK Precision Optical Corp., manufactures precision optical components and assemblies—mirrors, lenses, prisms, and integrated optical systems—for defense, aerospace, and civilian space programs, working almost exclusively as a prime contractor on purchase orders and delivery orders rather than through blanket purchase agreements or government-wide vehicles. The company is a for-profit manufacturer based in Aberdeen, Maryland, and operates as a subsidiary of Nearview Inc.; while most of its federal work carries no small business set-aside, Nu-Tek has won at least two total small business set-aside purchase orders and holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command Ogden Air Logistics Complex valued at $999,999 running through May 2028.

Nu-Tek's capability footprint centers on design, fabrication, and repair of specialized optical components—aluminum and fused-quartz mirrors with precision coatings, cemented doublet assemblies, collimating lenses, prisms, and custom integrated optical systems—with recent named work spanning a $34.8 thousand NASA small-business-set-aside purchase order for six aluminum off-axis parabola mirrors with enhanced gold and dielectric coatings supporting a lunar lidar prototype (May 2026), a $64.9 thousand NASA sole-source purchase order for two PIAA Vortex Mirrors for the Ames Coronagraph Exoplanet project (January 2025), a $104.2 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command sole-source purchase order for a custom cemented doublet optical assembly supporting high-energy laser characterization (August 2023), and a $70.5 thousand NASA small-business-set-aside purchase order for an optical telescope supporting Doppler lidar research (September 2023).

Customer concentration divides between volume and dollar value. By award count, NASA Goddard Space Center leads with 18 awards, followed by Air Force Materiel Command Ogden Air Logistics Complex with 16 awards and NASA Shared Services Center with 11 awards; these three agencies and two others (Naval Sea Systems Command and Langley Research Center) account for 45% of all awards. By combined potential value, Air Force Materiel Command Ogden air Logistics Complex anchors $1.2 million across 16 awards, NASA Shared Services Center carries $759 thousand across 11 awards, and Naval Sea Systems Command (a distinct entity from Office of Naval Research) holds $561 thousand; the top five customers by dollar value represent 68% of combined potential value. The divergence reflects Air Force holding both a high-value IDC and multiple smaller delivery orders, while NASA Goddard's volume does not translate to proportional dollar concentration.

Nu-Tek's parent vehicle is a single Air Force IDC (FA825023D0001) generating six task orders worth $83 thousand combined for optical lens, prism, mirror, and component repair supporting the Solar Electro-Optical Network and Defense Meteorological Satellite Program; this IDC is the primary vehicle through which Nu-Tek sustains Air Force work. Two NASA blanket purchase agreements (NNG10RA41Z and NNG14LN44Z) account for four task orders valued at $121 thousand combined. Activity has remained sparse and inconsistent—two awards in 2022, seven in 2023, seven in 2024, five in 2025, and one in 2026 year-to-date—with only one award (combined potential value $35 thousand) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term recompete exposure.

Nu-Tek performs subcontract work under five primes: BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. (optical telescope fabrication for the Instrumentation Range Support Program), Southwest Research Institute (fabrication of mirror and occulter optics for a Space Weather Coronagraph), Aerodyne-Sgt Engineering Services LLC (build-to-print mirrors under the MIST II multidisciplinary engineering contract), and Valkyrie Enterprises LLC (fabrication services for MIT Lincoln Laboratory research and development). The company's NAICS concentration—76 awards under Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing—and PSC profile (32 awards under Optical Instruments, Test Equipment, Components and Accessories) confirm its specialization as a precision-optics manufacturer rather than a broad-scope system integrator or service provider.

Custom and prototype high precision optical components and subassemblies. Windows, lenses, prisms, mirrors, and telescope systems to 60in. UV-VIS-IR, Glass, Ceramic, Crystal, Plastic, and Metal substrates. Optical quality diamond turning and polishing.