Federal contractor · RIO RANCHO, NM

8D PHOTONICS LLC

8D PHOTONICS LLC received $224.9K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards. Since FY2023: $2M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($224.9K).

Obligations · FY2026
$224.9K
New awards
2
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.8MFY2023
  2. 224.9KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$224.9K100%
    1 awards
  2. Missile Defense Agency$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$224.9K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Sandoval County, NM$224.9K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. SBIR/STTR PHASE II R&D: NON-DESTRUCTIVE CRYOGENIC WAFER MAPPER FOR INFRARED DETECTOR MATERIAL SCREENING$1.8M
    Missile Defense Agency· Sandoval County, NM· Research & development· May 17, 2023 – Nov 4, 2025· HQ086023C7402
  2. SBIR PHASE I CRYOGENIC MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION TESTBED FOR VERY LARGE FORMAT INFRARED DETECTOR ARRAYS$224.9K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Sandoval County, NM· Research & development· Sep 4, 2026 – Sep 4, 2026· 80NSSC26C0185

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. ELEMENTIUM MATERIALS, INC.$224.9K
    SOMERVILLE, MA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  2. OTTER AEROSPACE INC.$224.9K
    NOVATO, CA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  3. SPACE KENTUCKY LLC$225K
    LOUISVILLE, KY · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.