Phoenix LLC

Phoenix LLC, a small business limited liability company and joint venture headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, provides specialized neutron radiography, non-destructive evaluation, and radiation effects testing services to defense and civilian research agencies as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards). Phoenix operates as a subsidiary of Shine Technologies LLC and competes in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations, with research and development work concentrated under NAICS 541711 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences) and defense R&D PSC codes.

Phoenix's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Army research and development programs. The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command accounts for five awards totaling $45.3 million in combined potential value, anchored by a $4.15 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order awarded in September 2022 for design, development, installation, and testing of thermal neutron radiography capability at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, supporting the Army's 5 Hybrid Neutron System. The Army's Picatinny Arsenal contracting command issued two additional awards valued at $19.2 million combined, and the Army Acquisition Support Center's Program Executive Office Ammunition placed two awards totaling $2.7 million for neutron-based inspection techniques and imaging processing software. These top five customers represent 99% of combined potential value across all awards. The Navy Naval Sea Systems Command and the Department of Navy Office of Naval Research account for four awards totaling $1.05 million combined, while NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center awarded a $61,535 cooperative agreement in September 2022 for neutron imaging as non-destructive evaluation of additively manufactured parts.

Phoenix seats on a single named parent vehicle — the Army's Indefinite Delivery Contract W15QKN20D0007 — through which it has placed five task orders valued at $14.9 million combined. Recent capability work includes the $4.15 million Army thermal neutron radiography capability delivery order, a $2.14 million Army Research Development and Engineering Command delivery order for neutron radiography capabilities and limitations research and development (Task Order 5 under W15QKN20D0007, awarded September 2024, completion March 2026), a $551,273 delivery order to PEO Ammunition for neutron-based inspection and image processing software, and a $40,000 Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order for fast and thermal neutron irradiation testing supporting Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane.

Activity has been episodic — one award in 2021, four in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2024, and one in April 2026 — with two awards valued at $10.1 million combined reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. Phoenix subcontracts minimally; recent sub-award data shows a single sub engagement with Nammo Defense Systems Inc. on an AGM-86 cruise missile detonator cartridge N-Ray service. The portfolio's capability footprint is narrow and specialized: neutron radiography, thermal and fast neutron irradiation testing, non-destructive evaluation of munitions and advanced materials, and imaging processing software for neutron-based inspection. Performance occurs primarily at Phoenix's Madison, Wisconsin facility, with occasional work at customer sites including Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey.

Phoenix Nuclear Labs provides particle and nuclear sources and associated technologies for a variety of applications including homeland security, radiography, clandestine material detection, medical isotope production and space propulsion