Qmagiq LLC

Qmagiq LLC, a small business based in Nashua, New Hampshire, provides advanced infrared sensor design, development, and manufacturing — specifically focal plane arrays, strained-layer superlattice detectors, and multi-spectral imaging systems — to the Department of Defense and NASA as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) under total small business set-asides, with secondary work as a subcontractor to defense primes.

Qmagiq competes exclusively under small-business set-asides across its entire prime footprint. The company's capability portfolio centers on long-wavelength and mid-wave infrared focal plane array development, quantum-efficiency optimization of strained-layer superlattice sensors, compact multi-spectral infrared cameras with integrated spectral filters, and very-long-wave infrared sensor systems for space-based detection and tracking. Recent Phase I and Phase II SBIR work with NASA Shared Services Center includes a $225,000 Phase I contract (awarded September 2026, completing March 2027) for very-long-wave infrared sensor development to find and track asteroids, a $1.27 million Phase II SBIR contract (awarded September 2026, completing September 2028) for similar sensor development, an $849,950 Phase II SBIR contract (awarded June 2024, completing June 2027) for a compact multi-spectral infrared camera with 4-megapixel focal plane arrays, and a $2.59 million cost-plus-fixed-fee R&D contract with Naval Air Warfare Center (awarded March 2023, completing June 2027) for advanced infrared imaging systems. The company also previously completed multiple earlier-phase SBIR contracts with NASA for infrared spectral filter deposition and multi-spectral camera development between 2022 and 2024.

Customer concentration is split between defense and space. The Missile Defense Agency leads by award count with 21 awards worth $9.8 million in combined potential value; NASA Shared Services Center follows with 20 awards worth $8.3 million. When ranked by potential value, the Army's Acquisition Support Center (PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors) steps into third place with three awards worth $6.7 million, reflecting larger-dollar contracts than MDA's volume-driven ranking. Together, the top five customers account for 75% of awards by count and 86% of combined potential value. Qmagiq has served fifteen distinct federal customer agencies over its award history dating to 2005.

Activity has remained steady at three awards per year across 2022–2025, with two awards recorded in 2026. Four awards (combined potential value $4.9 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. In its subcontractor role, Qmagiq delivers infrared focal plane array components and materials engineering support to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Bluehalo LLC (for mid-wave infrared FPAs in surveillance and intelligence networks), The Aerospace Corporation (for engineering services on focal plane arrays), and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (for event-based neuromorphic camera electronics). SBIR work dominates the category concentration: 42 awards fall under physical, engineering, and life sciences R&D (except biotechnology), and 18 awards carry space R&D and basic research PSC codes. Combined potential value across all eighty prime and sub awards stands at $39.9 million, with $38.6 million obligated (97% of potential value).