Qunnect, Inc.

Qunnect, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Brooklyn, New York, manufactures quantum networking hardware—entangled photon sources, automated polarization compensators, and related optical components—sold to federal research and defense agencies as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards). The company operates primarily as a goods manufacturer under NAICS 334515 (Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals) and 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences), competing in full-and-open procurements without reliance on set-aside vehicles.

Qunnect's customer base is concentrated in defense and civilian research agencies. The Air Force Research Laboratory dominates by award count and dollar value, with six awards totaling $3.2 million in combined potential value, including a $1.237 million SBIR Phase II effort for reliable entanglement verification for scalable quantum networks (May 2025, ultimate completion February 2027) and a $147 thousand sole-source purchase order for an automated polarization compensator and entangled photon source (July 2024). The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency represents Qunnect's largest single commitment: a $1.793 million Other Transaction Agreement awarded February 2026 for development of an ultra-fast configurable polarization compensation module for large-scale quantum networks, with performance through February 2028. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has placed three purchase orders totaling $183 thousand for automated polarization compensation systems and entangled photon sources (September 2025 through September 2026). The Department of Energy Office of Science and National Science Foundation round out the active customer set. Three awards (combined potential value $3.1 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure.

Recent award activity accelerated from one award in 2022 to five in 2025, with two awards placed in 2026 year-to-date. Qunnect operates as a prime on 14 of 15 recent awards; its sole sub role is a quantum secure direct communication technology sub-award under GE Vernova (prime recipient) on a Department of Energy Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response grant, where Qunnect supplies entangled photon pairs and fast single-photon detectors for power-grid secure communication prototyping (award date August 2025). The vendor's capability portfolio centers on quantum entanglement distribution, photon-pair creation at telecom wavelengths suitable for fiber transport, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors, polarization compensation systems, and quantum secure direct communication implementation—work that targets quantum networking, quantum sensing, and quantum communications applications across DoD, civilian research, and critical-infrastructure security missions.