Veeco Process Equipment Inc.

Veeco Process Equipment Inc., a White Bear Lake, Minnesota-based manufacturer of advanced scientific instrumentation, delivers specialized laboratory equipment and replacement components to federal research agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchases. The company is a for-profit subsidiary of Veeco Instruments Inc. and competes without set-aside designations, though two recent purchase orders carried total small-business set-asides (one from NIST in 2023 and one from ONR in 2022). Veeco's federal work centers on molecular beam epitaxy systems, atomic layer deposition equipment, plasma-enhanced systems, and precision replacement components for materials research and nanotechnology development.

Veeco's customer concentration is highly skewed toward research agencies. Three customers account for 97% of recent awards by count: the Office of Naval Research (46 awards, $2.2 million combined potential value), the Research Development and Engineering Command at Army Materiel Command (19 awards, $1.4 million), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (15 awards, $7.3 million). The value ranking diverges sharply — NIST anchors most of the dollar exposure with large-ticket systems, while ONR drives volume through smaller purchase orders. NIST alone represents 65% of combined potential value across the portfolio ($7.3 million of $11.2 million total), anchored by a $2.01 million ion beam sputtering system awarded in 2022 and a $34.1 thousand effusion gallium cell awarded in February 2026, both supporting quantum nanophotonics and materials research. Veeco's work under Army RDECOM includes a $20.8 thousand aluminum cell for molecular beam epitaxy and an RF plasma source component, while ONR awards span multiple equipment classes — effusion cells, plasma chambers, arsenic valved cracker systems, thermal atomic layer deposition components, and on-site training.

Veeco places task orders under five Army and Navy indefinite-delivery contracts, with the heaviest concentration on W911QX09D0015 (8 task orders, $148 thousand combined potential value) and W911QX17D0003 (3 task orders, $195 thousand). Activity has contracted in recent years, declining from six awards in 2022 and 2023 to four in 2025 and one through mid-2026, though the 2022–2023 baseline was modest. In its sub role, Veeco supplies laboratory equipment and repair services to Valkyrie Enterprises (two awards in 2024 and 2025 for DoD and MIT Lincoln Laboratory work), Leidos (compact semiconductor opto-electronics research), and HX5 LLC (MIT Lincoln Laboratory equipment). Across both prime and sub footprints, work concentrates on semiconductor machinery manufacturing (39 awards per NAICS) and laboratory equipment and supplies (32 awards per PSC), with emphasis on replacement parts and system upgrades rather than new system deployments.