Federal contractor · WHITE PLAINS, NY

CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY, LLC

CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY, LLC received $11.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 125 awards (+59% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $126.7M. Its largest customer was National Institutes of Health ($6.4M).

Obligations · FY2026: $11.6M
New awards: 125
Sole-source: 59%
Single offer: 15%

UEI: H41JAKKNEXY1

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.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $11.6M in FY2026 together.

CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY, LLCWHITE PLAINS, NY · Family page
AI name match · 100%$11.6M
CARL ZEISS, INC.WHITE PLAINS, NY
AI name match · 100%$0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-29

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

14.2MFY2017
13.7MFY2018
10.5MFY2019
13.3MFY2020
14.5MFY2021
14MFY2022
14.2MFY2023
13.3MFY2024
7.3MFY2025
11.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

National Institutes of Health$6.4M55%
67 awards
National Institute of Standards and Technology$2.5M22%
9 awards
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources$771.7K6.7%
1 awards
Department of the Air Force$748.6K6.5%
6 awards
Department of the Army$303.3K2.6%
8 awards
Food and Drug Administration$178.1K1.5%
7 awards
Department of Veterans Affairs$140.7K1.2%
9 awards
Department of the Navy$126.8K1.1%
4 awards
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$115.1K1.0%
4 awards
Federal Bureau of Investigation$81.6K0.7%
2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$7.5M65%
Equipment maintenance$2.9M25%
Health & medical$830.4K7.2%
Professional services$284.7K2.5%
IT & telecom$77.9K0.7%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition74%
US 39% · $8.6M
Sole-source awards59%
US 30% · $6.8M
Single-offer competitions15%
US 8.7% · $1.8M
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

National Institutes of Health$2.8M
Department of Health and Human Services · 31 awards
National Institute of Standards and Technology$2.5M
Department of Commerce · 4 awards
Department of the Air Force$748.6K
Department of Defense · 2 awards
Department of the Army$303.3K
Department of Defense · 2 awards
Department of Veterans Affairs$141.2K
Department of Veterans Affairs · 2 awards

Largest awards

FOCUS ION BREAM SCAN ELECTRON MICROSCOPE U438240$2.3M
Department of the Army· Westchester County, NY· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 13, 2024 – Jun 14, 2026· W912HZ24C0084
OU03-FY26-033-NEW X-RAY COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY MICROSCOPE WITH EXTENDED WARRANTY$2.1M
National Institute of Standards and Technology· Westchester County, NY· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 23, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026· 1333ND26PNB030626
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF NIST-OWNED EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURED BY CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY LLC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ATTACHED STATEMENT OF WORK AND LIST OF COVERED EQUIPMENT.$1.1M
National Institute of Standards and Technology· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Sep 22, 2022 – Sep 21, 2026· 1333ND22PNB630654
NIA: LSM 990 WITH MULTIPHOTON AND SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION (SHG) [POTS 26-006578]$953.2K
National Institutes of Health· Baltimore city, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 15, 2026 – Jul 15, 2026· 75N98026F00254
ZEISS LSM 990 WITH AIRYSCAN 2 [26-004577]$831.3K
National Institutes of Health· Westchester County, NY· Health & medical· Aug 13, 2026 – Aug 13, 2026· 75N98026F00302
ADVANCED LATTICE LIGHT SHEET MICROSCOPY SYSTEM$813K
National Institutes of Health· Westchester County, NY· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 30, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026· 75N98026F00236
CARL ZEISS LATTICE SIM 5 LASER SCANNING STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION SUPER-RESOLUTION LIGHT MICROSCOPE AND ASSOCIATED SUPPLIES$771.7K
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources· Westchester County, NY· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 12, 2026 – Jun 12, 2026· 75N91026P00024
FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (FESEM) FOR NIST CNST NANOFAB USER FACILITY.$653.7K
National Institute of Standards and Technology· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 18, 2023 – Sep 23, 2026· 1333ND23PNB680135

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: $466.9K (4 subawards)

4 primes

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON$395.8K85%
DAYTON, OH · 1 subaward
JACOBS TECHNOLOGY INC.$40.3K8.6%
TULLAHOMA, TN · 1 subaward
TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC$30.8K6.6%
COLUMBUS, OH · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2021: $0 paid out · $358.4K received
FY2022: $0 paid out · $184.7K received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.2M received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.8M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $430.1K received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $466.9K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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

15 companies · $4.5M reported

TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC$1.1M
COLUMBUS, OH · 4 subawards · Facilities support services
RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$593.2K
FAIRFAX, VA · 5 subawards · Scientific research and development services
UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON$504.6K
DAYTON, OH · 3 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services

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

BRUKER BIOSPIN CORP$59.9M−12% in FY2026
BILLERICA, MA · 6 entities · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNational Institutes of Health · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenanceNational Institute of Standards and Technology · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+11 more
10X GENOMICS, INC.$22.5M−66% in FY2026
PLEASANTON, CA · 29% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingVeterans Affairs · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNational Institutes of Health · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance+1 more
NIKON INSTRUMENTS INC$22.8M+137% in FY2026
MELVILLE, NY · 5 entities · 29% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturingNational Institutes of Health · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNational Institutes of Health · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance+7 more

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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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 MICROSCOPY, LLC (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

CARL ZEISS, INC.AI match · 100%

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.