Xsoptix LLC

Xsoptix LLC, doing business as XS Optix, is a woman-owned small business based in Madison, Connecticut, that distributes specialized optical and photonic components to federal research and defense agencies as a prime contractor (81% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on Department of Defense and DARPA-funded programs. The vendor supplies lasers, laser amplifiers, spectrum analyzers, photodetectors, and related optical test equipment to the federal government through firm fixed-price purchase orders; recent prime awards span the Office of Naval Research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NASA, and the Naval Air Warfare Center, with no formal IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs in the portfolio.

Xsoptix's customer concentration centers on the Navy and NIST. The top five customer agencies account for 60% of recent awards by count, led by the Office of Naval Research (32 awards, $1.7 million combined potential value) and NIST (15 awards, $532 thousand). The Office of Naval Research dominates both award frequency and dollar magnitude—accounting for approximately 45% of all recent prime potential value—with awards for COBRITE MX Series tunable laser cards, DFB laser modules, spectrum analyzers, and slot mainframe chassis. The Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (7 awards, $404 thousand) and NASA's Shared Services Center (5 awards, $232 thousand) round out the active customer base. Xsoptix works under five named parent IDIQs, with the largest being Indefinite Delivery Contract N0014004D0011 (8 task orders, ONR), followed by FA300213D0011 (3 task orders, Air Force) and HR001122D0001 (2 task orders, DARPA).

The vendor's capability portfolio is grounded in the procurement and distribution of off-the-shelf photonic components and scientific instruments rather than custom design or engineering services. Recent representative prime work includes a $76,565.80 purchase order from NIST (August 2026, still open) for butterfly-packaged semiconductor lasers and amplifiers at 759 nm with integrated thermoelectric coolers, a $135,680 sole-source study from NASA Goddard (July 2025) on Toptica Eagleyard tapered laser amplifiers optimized for high peak powers, and a $172,900 purchase order from ONR (October 2024) for a Coherent WaveAnalyzer 1500S high-resolution spectrum analyzer operating in the C-band. Top NAICS codes reflect this focus: Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals (62 awards) and Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing (14 awards). Awards span 2022 through August 2026, with annual activity climbing from 2 awards in 2022 to a peak of 15 in 2024 and 13 in 2025.

In its subcontractor role, Xsoptix supplies optical equipment and test equipment to Valkyrie Enterprises LLC (appearing in at least seven sub-awards related to MIT Lincoln Laboratory research and development and Department of Defense line-funded optical and test equipment), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (DARPA research program support, materials), HX5 LLC (MIT Lincoln Laboratory optical and test equipment), Mantech MGS (MIT Lincoln Laboratory optical and test equipment), The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (guidance production emergent requirements and technical support), and Raytheon Company (fiberoptic filters for the SUPERB surveillance processing program). Only one award (combined potential value $77 thousand) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating a light recompete cliff. The vendor competes under full-and-open and total small business set-aside designations—most recent awards carry no set-aside, but two 2024 ONR purchase orders ($79,200 and $37,234) were set aside as total small business, and one 2022 NIST order ($59,500) used total small business set-aside.

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