Sydor Instruments, LLC

Sydor Instruments, LLC, doing business as Sydor Technologies, manufactures specialized scientific instrumentation and detection equipment for federal agencies as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards), competing primarily through full-and-open procurement with no characteristic set-aside posture. The company is a small-business-status limited liability company headquartered in Fairport, New York, with a subsidiary relationship to Sydor Holdings, LLC, and operates across multiple manufacturing segments: analytical laboratory instruments, optical instruments and lenses, photographic and photocopying equipment, and measuring and controlling devices under NAICS 334513, 333314, 333315, and related codes.

Sydor's capability portfolio centers on advanced detector and imaging systems for defense research, ballistic instrumentation, and x-ray science. Representative prime work includes a $278 thousand definitive contract with the U.S. Army Medical Command (awarded September 2024, set aside Total Small Business) for ballistic range equipment with velocity screens and Doppler radar systems at Fort Novosel, Alabama; a $272 thousand purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command (September 2023) for a streak camera spectrometer capable of measuring ultraviolet to visible emissions from explosive events; annual maintenance purchase orders to NAVSEA for streak camera systems valued at $131 thousand (May 2024); a $138 thousand purchase order from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (September 2026) for Doppler radar system equipment; recent purchase orders totaling $396 thousand and $206 thousand from Headquarters Division (January and November 2026) for ballistic instrumentation; and a $150 thousand NASA SBIR Phase 1 award (July 2022) for soft x-ray SCMOS detector development.

Customer concentration splits between research-focused and defense-oriented agencies. The top five customer agencies account for 59% of award count: the Department of Energy Office of Science (11 awards), Naval Sea Systems Command (7 awards, $1.2 million combined potential value), the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Center (7 awards, $633 thousand), NASA Shared Services Center (4 awards, $364 thousand), and the FBI Headquarters Division (3 awards, $703 thousand). By potential-value ranking, NAVSEA leads at $1.2 million, followed by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency ($1.1 million on 2 awards), the FBI ($703 thousand), and the Army RDEC ($633 thousand). DOE Office of Science dominates award volume but does not appear in the top potential-value tier, indicating a pattern of smaller research grants. The vendor has served 19 distinct federal agencies across 54 awards since 2008.

Federal grant work comprises prime awards from the Department of Energy Office of Science under CFDA 81.049 (Office of Science Financial Assistance Program): a $256 thousand project grant (February 2025) for a fast detector for scanning transmission electron microscopy of thick biological and environmental samples; a project grant for plasma electrode Pockels cells for inertial fusion facilities (July 2023, completion September 2026); and a $200 thousand project grant (June 2022) for an ultra-fast x-ray imager for high energy density and x-ray science. Activity has remained sparse in recent years — one or two awards annually from 2023 through 2026 — with five awards (combined potential value $874 thousand) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore exposure to recompete. The vendor operates as a prime on 53 of 54 awards and holds a single subcontractor relationship. Parent company Sydor Holdings, LLC carries the same headquarters address and does business as Sydor Technologies.

Sydor Technologies is your trusted innovation partner - accelerating ambitious scientific breakthroughs with mission-critical diagnostic and measurement solutions. Sydor builds partnerships founded on trust, performance, and precision. Our commitment is long-term. Every project. Every challenge. Every time. With rapid response, unmatched accuracy, and enduring support. Sydor's Advanced Instrumentation unit provides ultrafast diagnostics to capture and analyze high-energy events with picosecond timing accuracy. These systems support fusion, shock physics, dynamic materials studies, and other experiments that demand reliable, time-resolved data in both lab and high-EMI field environments. Sydor's Ballistics unit provides equipment to enable mission critical data needed for material testing with comprehensive, integrated solutions. Weapons and ammunition testing, armor and impact testing, ballistic imaging and yaw measurements for defense, law enforcement, science, research and security