Telops Usa, Inc.

Telops Usa, Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer headquartered in Newark, Delaware, supplies high-speed infrared and hyperspectral imaging cameras and optical components to federal research, test, and defense agencies as a prime contractor (83% of recent awards) and selectively as a subcontractor. The vendor operates in full-and-open competition with no set-aside footprint, though two recent NIST purchase orders carried total small business set-asides. Primary NAICS alignment is analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (9 awards) and optical instrument and lens manufacturing (5 awards), with product-focused PSC coding in laboratory equipment and supplies and optical instruments and test equipment.

Telops operates as a specialized equipment vendor with narrow but deep customer relationships in federal metrology, hypersonic testing, and defense research. The top five customer agencies by award count or potential value account for 63% to 83% of recent activity, concentrated among the National Institute of Standards and Technology (6 awards, $493 thousand combined potential value), the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory and Air Force Institute of Technology (5 awards, $107 thousand combined potential value), and the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (1 award, $619 thousand combined potential value). The Air Force Air Education and Training Command anchors the largest single award at $1.1 million for the HYPER-CAM-MWE FAST /HC-IMWEF program, awarded September 2024. Representative prime work includes a $184.969 thousand NIST purchase order for a high-speed infrared micro camera system supporting the CHIPS Metrology program (July 2024), a $231.135 thousand Air Force Materiel Command multispectral infrared camera system delivery to the Air Force Institute of Technology (April 2024), and two recent NIST near-infrared and infrared camera purchase orders totaling $273.8 thousand (April and September 2026). All work is performed at the vendor's manufacturing facility in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Telops has maintained a steady but modest prime award cadence — four awards in 2024, two in 2026 to date — with combined potential value of $3.1 million across all 24 prime and sub awards in the source window. Only one award faces recompete in the next twenty-four months ($112 thousand potential value). Subcontract activity flows through Radiance Technologies Inc., Amentum Technology, Inc., and the University of Dayton, where Telops provides high-speed multispectral camera systems and engineering products for Air Force Research Laboratory laser integration testing and university-led hypersonic materials research. Telops holds one task-order slot on the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services vehicle but does not anchor vehicle-based volume. The vendor's federal footprint is transactional and goods-centric rather than services-based, with recurring NIST and Air Force customer relationships driven by specialized infrared and hyperspectral optics performance that competitors do not match on frame rate, calibration, or software integration.