Federal contractor · PINEHURST, NC

AETHER OPTICS LLC

AETHER OPTICS LLC received $173.7K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Its largest customer was U.S. Special Operations Command ($173.7K).

Obligations · FY2026
$173.7K
New awards
1
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. 173.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. U.S. Special Operations Command$173.7K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$173.7K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Moore County, NC$173.7K100%

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. PEO SOF WARRIOR - VISUAL AUGMENTATION SYSTEMS (VAS)$173.7K
    U.S. Special Operations Command· Moore County, NC· Research & development· Nov 7, 2025 – Apr 21, 2026· H9240526PE002

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. HAROD SPRING LLC$173.2K
    DALLAS, TX · 99.7% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Special Operations Command · Scientific research and development services
  2. IHIO INNOVATIONS CORP$175K
    CORONA, CA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Special Operations Command · Scientific research and development services
  3. LOCUS LOCK, INC.$172.4K
    DENVER, CO · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Special Operations Command · 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.