Federal contractor · ARLINGTON, VA

BEACON PHOTONICS INC

BEACON PHOTONICS INC received $6.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+625% vs FY2025). Since FY2025: $7.2M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($2.4M).

Obligations · FY2026
$6.3M
New awards
5
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
RWY5ZMTPENK5
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 869.5KFY2025
  2. 6.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$2.4M38%
    2 awards
  2. Department of the Air Force$2.1M33%
    1 awards
  3. Department of the Navy$1.8M29%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$6.3M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Arlington County, VA$4.2M67%
  2. Fairfax County, VA$2.1M33%

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. DEVELOP A MODE LOCKED LASER ON CHIP THAT WILL COMBINE THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE FIBER LASER APPROACH AND THE MINIATURIZATION AND FABRICATION ADVANTAGES OF PHOTONICS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (PICS).$2.1M
    Department of the Army· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Mar 19, 2026 – May 14, 2026· W5170126CA099
  2. BASILICA: BARIUM ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY WITH INTEGRATED LASERS FOR ION COMPUTING APPLICATIONS: TO FABRICATE A NARROW BANDWIDTH, ON-CHIP 1762 NM LASER WITH AN AMPLIFIER TO ADDRESS THE 6S1/2 TO 5D5/2 QUADRUPOLE TRANSITION FOR BA+$2.1M
    Department of the Air Force· Fairfax County, VA· Research & development· Apr 6, 2026 – Apr 6, 2026· FA875026CB037
  3. 873AUTHORITY$900K
    Department of the Navy· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Apr 2, 2026 – Apr 14, 2026· N6426726C7454
  4. 873AUTHORITY$899.9K
    Department of the Navy· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Apr 2, 2026 – Apr 2, 2026· N6426726C7020
  5. SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PHASE I, TOPIC O254-007: PHOTONIC INTEGRATED NV CENTER IN DIAMOND VECTOR MAGNETOMETERS. PROPOSAL O254-007-0529: COMPASS: COMPACT OPTICAL MAGNETOMETER FOR POSITIONING, ATTITUDE, AND SENSING SYSTEMS.$314.3K
    Department of the Army· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Mar 25, 2026 – May 19, 2026· W5170126CA105

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

BEACON PHOTONICS INC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (0 new awards), −100% vs FY2025.

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
1
Since FY2025
$400K

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 400KFY2025
  2. 0FY2026

Largest awards

  1. MTO PITCH DAY. THE CHIMERA, COMPACT HETEROGENEOUSLY INTEGRATED MODE-LOCKED EMITTERS WITH RARE-EARTH AMPLIFICATION, PROGRAM WILL DEMONSTRATE…$400K
    12.910 · Research and Technology Development· Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency· Other financial assistance· Jul 29, 2025 – Oct 7, 2025· HR00112530193

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2025–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $412.4K (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$412.4K100%
    STANFORD, CA · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $557.7K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $412.4K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

1 company · $970.1K reported

  1. THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$970.1K
    STANFORD, CA · 4 subawards

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

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 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SPECTRUM PHOTONICS INC$10.5M−72% in FY2026
    HONOLULU, HI · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. COVAR, LLC$8.9M−82% in FY2026
    MCLEAN, VA · 91% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. SENSEEKER CORP$10.5M−20% in FY2026
    GOLETA, CA · 98% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services

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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.