Phase Sensitive Innovations Inc.

Phase Sensitive Innovations Inc., a veteran-owned small business based in Newark, Delaware, develops advanced photonic and electronic technologies for defense and civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor. The vendor competes predominantly under small-business set-asides, with 51 of 106 awards designated for total small business participation; the remaining 55 awards are full-and-open or other non-set-aside procurements. Phase Sensitive Innovations operates exclusively as a prime on federal contracts and grants (106 awards, 100% prime) with no subcontract activity.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on specialized photonic component design and integration: optical modulators, photodiodes, RF-photonic devices, thin-film lithium niobate circuits, electro-optic integrated circuits, high-power balanced photodiodes, microwave components, and phased array antenna systems. Representative contracts include a $14.875 million Other Transaction Agreement with the Army's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (awarded July 2026) to develop an airborne adaptive frequency system for resilient tactical communications using photonic RF capabilities; a $9.117 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with the Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (September 2024) for RF-photonic devices enabling multistatic radar processing; and a $6.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (October 2023) for radar disruption systems development. The vendor also holds a $3.67 million Other Transaction IDV with the Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (September 2024) to develop an ultra-compact W-band phased array antenna system, and a Basic Ordering Agreement with the Navy's Office of Naval Research (June 2022) for SBIR Phase III high-frequency microwave photonics technologies.

Customer concentration sits with Department of Defense research commands. The top five funding agencies account for 75% to 77% of awards by both count and potential value. The Air Force Research Laboratory leads by award count (23 awards, $43.4 million combined potential value), followed by the Navy's Office of Naval Research (17 awards, $23.8 million) and the Navy's Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (16 awards, $14 million). The Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command ranks third by potential value (12 awards, $19.7 million) with the Army's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command adding $15.1 million across two large OTA and OTA-derived awards. NASA's Shared Services Center and the National Institute of Standards and Technology represent the vendor's limited civilian exposure (11 and 1 award respectively, totaling $3.45 million). The vendor has served 22 distinct customer agencies, predominantly research laboratories and command R&D offices rather than operational procurement commands.

Activity has remained modest by federal contractor standards: two to twelve awards per year over the past five fiscal years, with 106 total awards spanning 2008 to September 2026. Combined potential value stands at $151.4 million across the entire portfolio. Within the next twenty-four months, thirteen awards with ultimate completion dates carry a combined potential value of $58.6 million, positioning the vendor for significant recompete exposure in FY2025–FY2027. The category concentration reveals the vendor's pure R&D footprint: 51 awards fall under NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology), with the remaining work split across applied research, experimental development, and basic research PSC codes.

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows zero invoiced prime-contract revenue across FY2023–FY2025, with only 0.0 to 0.1 FTEs recorded in the SCI dataset. This reflects the vendor's focus on fixed-price R&D contracts, equipment purchases, and other-transaction agreements that fall outside or below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold and do not map to labor-hour billing structures. The SCI dataset does not represent the vendor's total federal services activity or revenue; it is a partial capture of certain labor-intensive service contracts only.