Sensing Strategies, Inc.

Sensing Strategies, Inc., a small business based in Pennington, New Jersey, develops advanced sensor technologies for defense applications as a prime contractor (89% of recent awards), competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on research and development contracts with defense agencies. The company specializes in multi-phenomenology sensors, event-based camera systems, infrared detection, space situational awareness technologies, and sensor systems for laser effects observation and threat warning, with a customer footprint anchored by the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Sensing Strategies' customer concentration is heavily skewed toward a single customer. The Air Force Research Laboratory accounts for 21 of 31 prime awards (55% of prime count) and $45 million of the $56.1 million combined potential value across all awards (80% of portfolio dollars) — a decisive concentration that reflects the company's long-standing role as an SBIR performer across Air Force sensor development priorities. The Department of the Navy (Office of Naval Research and Naval Sea Systems Command) and Department of the Army follow with five awards combined totaling roughly $6.2 million. The portfolio shows nine distinct customer agencies total, but all are defense-facing; no civilian agency work appears in recent years.

Recent prime work demonstrates the capability portfolio: a $1.099 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Phase II SBIR with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (awarded March 2026, completion March 2028) for standoff aerosol plume density research; a $1.844 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded August 2024, completion August 2027) for Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS High) work; a $1.9 million Other Transaction Agreement with the Air Force (awarded May 2024, completion September 2026) for a miniature smart satellite threat warning sensor; a $900 thousand firm fixed-price contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (awarded May 2024, completion August 2026) for novel camera research and technology transition; and a $749 thousand Phase II SBIR with the Air Force Research Laboratory (awarded September 2022, completion December 2024) for multi-phenomenology sensor research. A $239 thousand firm fixed-price Phase I SBIR from the Office of Naval Research (awarded November 2025, completion November 2026) represents the most recent award.

Activity has fluctuated significantly over the past five years — three awards in 2022, one in 2023, six in 2024, two in 2025, and one so far in 2026 — with five awards (combined potential value $6 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete exposure. The portfolio carries $40.1 million in obligated dollars across $56.1 million in combined potential value (71% drawdown rate), indicating sustained invoicing across the base.

In its subcontractor role, Sensing Strategies performs laser scatter and aerosol detection work on behalf of Science Applications International Corporation on an Optical Radiation Bioeffects and Safety (ORBS) program and field experiments work (subcontract dated January 2025), and supports Bluehalo LLC on personnel protection against ocular threats and laser airborne protection system (FLAPS) development efforts involving miniaturized sensor design for helmet- or goggle-mounted threat detection (subcontracts dated February and July 2024). The company operates as a prime on substantially all core work, with subcontracting used to fill specialized roles in optical systems integration and field testing.

Development of requirements, designs, algorithms and specialized sensors for remote sensing applications.