Pembroke Instruments, LLC

Pembroke Instruments, LLC, a San Francisco–based small business, manufactures short-wave infrared cameras, hyperspectral imaging systems, and precision spectroscopy equipment for federal research agencies as a prime contractor on purchase orders (86% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on defense and advanced-research programs. The company operates as a limited liability partnership and competes predominantly full-and-open across civilian research and military technology agencies, with no recurring set-aside posture in its recent footprint, though individual awards have carried Total Small Business designations.

Pembroke's customer concentration centers on federal research and defense technology customers. The top five funding agencies account for 73% of recent awards by count and 86% by potential value, led by the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (4 awards, $198 thousand combined potential value) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division (1 award, $172 thousand), followed by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (4 awards, $109 thousand), NASA Shared Services Center (4 awards, $79 thousand), and the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (1 award, $44 thousand). NIST dominates both volume and dollars; the FBI's share reflects a single high-value sole-source award for a GRAND-EOS visible and near-infrared hyperspectral imaging system for the Questioned Documents Unit. Representative prime work includes a $22,995 NIST purchase order for a high-sensitivity cooled SWIR camera (September 2025), a $171,745 FBI sole-source purchase order for a GRAND-EOS VNIR HSI system (September 2024), a $112,345 NIST purchase order for a VUV+EUV spectrometer supporting the CHIPS Research & Development Metrology program (August 2024), and a $25,500 NASA purchase order for a thermoelectrically cooled SWIR camera to characterize shock wave properties at the Electric Arc Shock Tube facility (September 2023).

Activity has been sparse and irregular — two awards in 2022, five in 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — with the most recent award in May 2026. The vendor's combined potential value across twenty-two awards totals $699 thousand, with obligations reaching $810 thousand (116% of potential value), indicating that Pembroke has invoiced beyond original ceilings on several orders. In its subcontractor role, Pembroke supplies SWIR cameras to Sri International on advanced-computing research (two awards, December 2023 and July 2024) and provides support to Systems & Technology Research LLC on the Hidalgo Project (April 2026). The vendor's capability portfolio—categorized across Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing, Photographic and Photocopying Equipment Manufacturing, and Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing NAICS codes—centers on cooled SWIR imaging systems, hyperspectral imaging platforms, and precision spectroscopy instruments for metrology, scientific research, and federal forensics applications.