Federal contractor · SANTA CLARA, CA

COHERENT INC

COHERENT INC received $31.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards. Since FY2017: $12M. Its largest customer was National Institute of Standards and Technology ($23.8K).

Obligations · FY2026
$31.2K
New awards
5
Sole-source
60%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small business
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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.

7 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $439.9K in FY2026 together.

  1. COHERENT INCSANTA CLARA, CA · Family page
    $31.2K
  2. COHERENT NA, INC.SANTA CLARA, CA
    $408.8K
  3. COHERENT, INC.SANTA CLARA, CA
    $0
  4. COHERENT, INC.RICHMOND, CA
    $0
  5. DILAS DIODE LASER INC.TUCSON, AZ
    $0
  6. NUFERNEAST GRANBY, CT
    $0
  7. PRC LASER CORPMOUNT ARLINGTON, NJ
    $0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.6MFY2017
  2. 2MFY2018
  3. 2.8MFY2019
  4. 2.6MFY2020
  5. 2.1MFY2021
  6. 584.6KFY2022
  7. 262KFY2023
  8. 10.1KFY2024
  9. -5.2KFY2025
  10. 31.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology$23.8K76%
    1 awards
  2. National Institutes of Health$7,42624%
    4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$23.8K76%
  2. Equipment maintenance$7,42624%

Where the work was performed

  1. Abroad$23.8K76%
  2. Montgomery County, MD$8,65628%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition24%
    US 39% · $7,426
  • Sole-source awards60%
    US 30% · $18.8K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · -$11.3K
  • 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

  1. National Institutes of Health$18.8K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES$94.7K
    National Institutes of Health· Santa Clara County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Aug 29, 2019 – Jun 11, 2026· 75N95019P00577
  2. OU68-FY26-268-NEW PHOTODISSOCIATION LASER$23.8K
    National Institute of Standards and Technology· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 28, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026· 1333ND26PNB680321
  3. THE NEUROVASCULAR RESEARCH (NVR) UNIT IS REQUESTING THE PURCHASE OF A WARRANTY WITH OPTION YEARS TO COVER THRU JULY 2029. THIS WILL MATCH THE COVERAGE PERIOD FOR THE OTHER LASER TO ALIGN FUTURE WARRANTY EXTENSIONS. THIS COVERAGE IS ESSENTIAL FOR MAI$20K
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Equipment maintenance· May 19, 2026 – May 19, 2026· 75N98026P00406
  4. MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT$14.8K
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Jun 30, 2021 – Jul 17, 2026· 75N91021P00583
  5. COHERENT LASER GROUP:1110112 [21-005726]$6,427
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Jul 29, 2021 – May 12, 2026· 75N95B21P00094

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $515K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $218K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $42K 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

19 companies · $53.9M reported

  1. THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.$16.9M
    CAMBRIDGE, MA · 31 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P.$14.4M
    GREENVILLE, TX · 5 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$6.7M
    LEXINGTON, MA · 26 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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

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

  1. THORLABS, INC$3.2M−42% in FY2026
    NEWTON, NJ · 2 entities · 50% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNational Institutes of Health · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNational Institute of Standards and Technology · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+4 more
  2. LIGHT CONVERSION-USA, INC.$1.8M+64% in FY2026
    BOZEMAN, MT · 35% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNational Institute of Standards and Technology · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingArmy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  3. NEWPORT CORP$5.6M−32% in FY2026
    IRVINE, CA · 13 entities · 51% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNational Institutes of Health · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNational Institute of Standards and Technology · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+6 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 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 COHERENT INC (7 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • COHERENTAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$300K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2025
$1.1M

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$360K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$390K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$300K
    4 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense12 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. SENATE10 reports
  2. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)8 reports
  3. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES7 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Ervin Graves Strategy Group, LLC$1.1M
    11 reports
  2. RM2 Consultants, Inc.$0
    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 Sep 30, 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.