Senseics Corporation

Senseics Corporation, a small-business technology vendor based in Columbus, Ohio, develops radiation-hardened imaging sensors, detector arrays, and integrated circuits for space and defense applications as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The company competes predominantly under total small-business set-asides on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I, II, and III contracts, with recent prime work (93% of awards) anchored to federal R&D programs rather than production contracts.

Senseics' capability portfolio centers on advanced sensor and imaging technologies for space missions and radiation-hardened platforms. Representative work includes a $2 million definitive contract from Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded February 2026) to develop an extended short-wave infrared colloidal quantum dot detector array camera module for the Space Based Based Infrared System High (SBIRS High) major defense acquisition program, with performance through May 2029 at Grandview, Ohio; a $1.66 million NASA grant for a low-cost, radiation-hard, time-of-flight lidar or infrared radiometry system on a chip for Earth orbit and planetary missions (February 2023, completion August 2026); and a $1.5 million SBIR Phase III contract from the Office of Naval Research (awarded February 2024) for novel open-circuit readout pixels optimized for cost-effective spin-on detectors such as colloidal quantum dots. The company has also delivered SBIR Phase II work for NASA on radiation-hard, low-power frequency-modulated continuous wave signal-processing ASICs ($844 thousand) and Phase I contracts from the Air Force Research Laboratory for low-swap electro-optical/infrared sensor technology and digitally reconfigurable wideband transmitters.

Customer concentration splits across space and defense agencies. NASA's Shared Services Center leads by award count (5 awards, $2.8 million potential value); the Department of the Navy (across Naval Sea Systems Command and the Office of Naval Research) anchors the dollar volume at $3.7 million combined across three awards; the Air Force Research Laboratory places four awards ($1.2 million); and the Army Materiel Command contributes two awards ($1.2 million). These five customer entities represent 100% of combined potential value. Activity has remained modest and episodic — two awards in 2022 and 2024, two in 2025, one in 2026 — with three awards (combined potential value $2.5 million) reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete.

Senseics holds one federal grant sub-award: a sub-recipient position on a Purdue University grant for the Midwest AFRL Regional Research Convergence Hub (M-ARRCH) collaboration, awarded October 2023. The vendor's prime-grant footprint consists of a single NASA project grant. Work is performed at the company's Grandview, Ohio facility. Recent contract structures include firm fixed-price purchase orders and cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contracts, reflecting the mix of SBIR research and development deliverables with space agencies and defense R&D commands.

SenseICs Ltd. architects, designs, produces, and tests integrated circuits, printed circuit boards, and electronic systems.