Oceanit Laboratories Inc.

Oceanit Laboratories Inc., doing business as Oceanit, a Honolulu-based small business, operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) on applied research, advanced materials development, and prototype manufacturing for federal defense and civilian agencies, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides across SBIR and STTR programs. The company is a for-profit organization with one subsidiary, Oceanit Foundry LLC.

Oceanit's capability portfolio centers on advanced research, engineering, and prototype manufacturing across defense, materials science, energy, cybersecurity, and sensor systems. Recent representative work includes a $16.5 million Office of Naval Research Phase III contract for lightweight anti-corrosion nanotechnology coating and technology enhancement; an $8.9 million Naval Air Warfare Center delivery order for TRIDENT FIRE research and development; a $1.96 million Missile Defense Agency Phase II SBIR contract for passive autonomous vulnerability screening; and a $1.8 million Air Force Research Laboratory Direct-to-Phase II SBIR contract for waterjet vision system development. Work is performed in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Customer concentration reflects heavy Navy dominance across both volume and dollars. The top five funding agencies—Naval Air Warfare Center (44 awards, $63.7 million), Office of Naval Research (23 awards, $47 million), Missile Defense Agency (11 awards, $44.7 million), Air Force Research Laboratory (51 awards, $25.2 million), and Army Research Development and Engineering Command (36 awards, $21.1 million)—account for 45% of awards and 68% of combined potential value. Naval Air Warfare Center and ONR together represent $110.7 million, or approximately 37% of the total portfolio. Oceanit maintains a Basic Ordering Agreement with Naval Air Systems Command through August 2028 for SBIR Phase III research and development services, providing a flexible vehicle for Navy work continuation.

Activity across the past five years shows modest growth trajectory—23 awards in 2022, dipping to 16 in 2023, recovering to 23 in 2024, 19 in 2025, and 3 awards year-to-date in 2026. Twenty-five awards totaling $54.2 million combined potential value reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing significant recompete exposure.

NAICS concentration is pronounced in applied research: 118 awards under Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology), and 113 awards under the same category excluding biotechnology. Engineering Services accounts for 40 awards. Top PSC codes reflect the research footprint—National Defense R&D Services (33 awards), R&D-Defense Other (30 awards), and R&D-Other Research and Development Basic Research (25 awards).

Oceanit's federal grant footprint is secondary but multidisciplinary. The vendor holds grants as recipient from the Department of Agriculture (plant root phenotyping tool development for crop breeding; $174 thousand, CFDA 10.212), Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research (coral reef monitoring via hyperspectral UAS and associated machine learning; completed 2023), Department of Energy Office of Science (hydrogen recovery from oilfield waste via AI-assisted arc-plasma technology; geothermal well integrity metamaterials; data correlation; all completed or near-completion as of late 2022), Department of Transportation Immediate Office of the Secretary (crushed aggregate gradation evaluation systems; underground natural gas storage leak identification), and ARPA-E (subsurface sensing technology for power lines undergrounding; Cooperative Agreement through April 2027). SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $3 million across FY2022–FY2024, with roughly 2.3 to 3.2 FTEs delivered annually; median government-paid rates ran around $167.51 per hour, with the range from $142.78 to $226.87 per hour reflecting mix of technical and support labor. Oceanit subcontracts minimally on its prime awards (0% sub-hours share on SCI-reportable contracts) and operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor.

Oceanit operates as a subcontractor to Science Applications International Corporation on a data-analysis tool contract updating RetinaView software for Air Force ocular imaging registration (2025 modification), and subcontracts to Conservation International Foundation on a coral reef restoration grant involving 3D-printed concrete frameworks (2024). These two sub-awards represent less than 1% of the portfolio and are secondary to Oceanit's prime-contractor-dominant footprint.