Federal contractor · MAPLE GROVE, MN

CARL ZEISS INDUSTRIAL QUALITY SOLUTIONS LLC

CARL ZEISS INDUSTRIAL QUALITY SOLUTIONS LLC received $1.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 18 awards (+68% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $5.7M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($1.2M).

Obligations · FY2026: $1.6M
New awards: 18
Sole-source: 93%
Single offer: 7.2%

UEI: SJVVKUFLU1X5
Parent company: CARL-ZEISS-STIFTUNG

Other than small businessForeign-owned

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the CARL ZEISS INDUSTRIAL METROLOGY, LLC company family: 4 registered entities, $1.7M in FY2026 together. See the family

CARL ZEISS INDUSTRIAL METROLOGY, LLCMAPLE GROVE, MN · Family page
Reported parent$44.6K
SCHOTT NORTH AMERICA, INC.DURYEA, PA
Reported parent$0
CARL ZEISS MEDITEC INCDUBLIN, CA
Reported parent-$20.6K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

50KFY2017
125.3KFY2018
92.9KFY2019
50KFY2020
65.3KFY2021
52KFY2022
1.4MFY2023
1.2MFY2024
981.7KFY2025
1.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Army$1.2M71%
4 awards
Department of the Navy$278.6K17%
5 awards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$150.4K9.1%
3 awards
Bureau of the Fiscal Service$16.3K1.0%
1 awards
National Gallery of Art$10.4K0.6%
1 awards
United States Mint$10K0.6%
1 awards
Federal Acquisition Service$9,0200.5%
2 awards
Department of the Air Force$7,8700.5%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Equipment maintenance$917K56%
Other equipment & supplies$468.6K28%
IT & telecom$260.6K16%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $1.6M
Sole-source awards93%
US 30% · $1.5M
Single-offer competitions7.2%
US 8.7% · $118.8K
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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

Department of the Army$1.1M
Department of Defense · 3 awards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$150.4K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 3 awards
Bureau of the Fiscal Service$16.3K
Department of the Treasury · 1 awards
National Gallery of Art$10.4K
National Gallery of Art · 1 awards
United States Mint$10K
Department of the Treasury · 1 awards

Largest awards

ZEISS CMM MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR$860.2K
Department of the Navy· Duval County, FL· Equipment maintenance· Nov 28, 2022 – Nov 25, 2025· N6852023C0002
COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES (CMMS) SUPPORT$479.1K
Department of the Army· Nueces County, TX· Equipment maintenance· Mar 5, 2026 – Mar 5, 2026· W912NW26PA014
COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES MODERNIZATION FOR CRANE ARMY AMMUNITION ACTIVITY$468.6K
Department of the Army· Martin County, IN· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 18, 2025 – Mar 23, 2026· W519TC26PA037
ZEISS ACCURA II CMM PROBE HEAD$127.5K
Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Jul 20, 2023 – Apr 7, 2026· N6852023P0109
ANNUAL PM AND CALIBRATION OF CCAD ZEISS CMM MACHINES AND ON-SITE REPAIRS AS NEEDED.$115.9K
Department of the Army· Nueces County, TX· Equipment maintenance· Oct 20, 2025 – Oct 20, 2025· W912NW26FA001
EMERGENCY REPAIR SERVICE$114.1K
Department of the Navy· Craven County, NC· Equipment maintenance· Apr 10, 2024 – Apr 9, 2026· M6700124P1032
CMM SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE$100.1K
Department of the Army· Hennepin County, MN· IT & telecom· Jan 23, 2026 – May 1, 2026· W912NW26PA012
ZEISS CONTURA MACHINE (CMM) HARDWARE AND RETROFIT SERVICES$89.8K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Hennepin County, MN· IT & telecom· Jun 16, 2026 – Jun 16, 2026· 80NSSC26P0829

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-contracts: $1M (5 subawards)

2 primes

FLUOR MARINE PROPULSION, LLC$650.4K64%
GREENVILLE, SC · 2 subawards
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.$366.8K36%
KANSAS CITY, MO · 3 subawards

By fiscal year

FY2022: $0 paid out · $176K received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.1M received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.4M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $3.4M received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $1M 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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

16 companies · $15.5M reported

DRS NETWORK & IMAGING SYSTEMS LLC$2.8M
MELBOURNE, FL · 8 subawards · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$2.4M
FORT WORTH, TX · 20 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS OF SANDIA, LLC$2.2M
ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 20 subawards · Facilities support services

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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

SPIRENT FEDERAL SYSTEMS INC$8.5M+21% in FY2026
PLEASANT GROVE, UT · 52% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenanceArmy · Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair and maintenanceAir Force · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+7 more
EDAX, LLC$1.2M−100% in FY2026
PLEASANTON, CA · 21% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingAir Force · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNavy · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance+4 more
BRUKER AXS LLC$7M+56% in FY2026
FITCHBURG, WI · 6 entities · 44% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNavy · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenanceAir Force · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+4 more

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of CARL ZEISS INDUSTRIAL METROLOGY, LLC (4 recipients).

Matched organizations

CARL ZEISS, INC.AI match · 94%

Lobbying · 2026: $110K; 5 reports

Lobbying by year

2026$110K
5 reports

Top issues

Trade (domestic and foreign)4 reports
Science and technology3 reports
Health issues1 reports
Manufacturing1 reports
Waste (hazardous, solid, interstate, nuclear)1 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES3 reports
U.S. SENATE3 reports
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)1 reports
Commerce - Dept of (DOC)1 reports
Natl Security Council (NSC)1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

FGS Global (US) LLC (FKA FGH Holdings LLC)$40K
2 reports
ALPINE GROUP PARTNERS, LLC.$20K
1 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 8170 · MATCH Act1 report
119th Congress · Introduced · 2026

1 of 5 reports (2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.