Telops Inc.

Telops Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Québec City, Canada, sells specialized infrared and hyperspectral imaging hardware — high-speed thermal cameras, multispectral infrared systems, and optical components — to federal agencies as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards), with all work conducted on full-and-open competitive or sole-source basis and no SBA set-aside participation. The vendor has held a SAM.gov registration since 2003 and acquired LR Tech Inc., the original Canadian manufacturer of the Critical Assist II infrared spectrometer, securing proprietary manufacturing and service rights that underpin multiple sole-source procurements across defense and civilian research agencies.

Telops' customer footprint spans nineteen federal agencies with concentration in defense research and test organizations. The top five customers account for 55% of recent awards by count and 77% by combined potential value: the Army Test and Evaluation Command leads by dollars ($3.7 million across five awards), followed by the Air Force Air Education and Training Command ($2.4 million across nine awards), the EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management ($1.8 million, single award), the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command ($1.7 million across six awards), and the Air Force Materiel Command ($1.4 million across ten awards). Representative recent prime work includes a $1.8 million sole-source purchase order from EPA for two hyperspectral chemical detection instruments supporting the ASPECT real-time airborne data collection platform (April 2026), a $929 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from Army Test and Evaluation Command for a hyperspectral imager system and accessories at Dugway Proving Ground (June 2025), an $834 thousand purchase order from Air Education and Training Command for a HYPER-CAM-XLW MINI hyperspectral imaging camera (February 2025), and a $386 thousand purchase order from Air Materiel Command for a Fast-Scanning mid/near infrared spectroradiometer (September 2025). Smaller examples include a $208 thousand order from the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory for a Telops MS M2k UD high-speed multispectral infrared camera with custom filter wheel (September 2024), and a $173 thousand order from NASA for a Highspeed Thermal Camera Telops M3K (June 2026).

Most procurements follow FAR 12.102(a) commercial-item procedures under sole-source authority, justified by Telops' exclusive proprietary capability or exclusive access to manufacturing and service subsystems. Primary NAICS categories reflect the hardware portfolio: Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (17 awards), Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing (15 awards), and Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance (10 awards). Activity has grown from three awards in 2022 to eight in 2025, with four awards in 2026 year to date. Only three awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $2 million), indicating limited near-term recompete exposure. As a subcontractor, Telops supplies hyperspectral imagers and research cameras to Leidos on a Defense Department critical minerals research task (September 2025), to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on space situational defense program support efforts (May–June 2025), and to The Aerospace Corporation on multispectral infrared camera delivery (September 2023). The vendor's positioning centers on sole-source, high-value instrument sales to federal research, test, and development missions where proprietary thermal-imaging or hyperspectral capabilities are unavailable from domestic competitors.