Federal contractor · NEWARK, DE

EM PHOTONICS INC

EM PHOTONICS INC received $2.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (+535% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $13.5M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($2M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2.5M
New awards
3
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
80%
UEI
CA3NJCKCTN63
Small businessVeteran-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.4MFY2017
  2. 174.6KFY2018
  3. 1.4MFY2019
  4. 1.5MFY2020
  5. 869.3KFY2021
  6. 541.1KFY2022
  7. 1.1MFY2023
  8. 1.5MFY2024
  9. 393.9KFY2025
  10. 2.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$2M80%
    2 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$500K20%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$2.5M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. New Castle County, DE$2.5M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition80%
    US 39% · $2M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions80%
    US 8.8% · $2M
  • 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. SBIR TOPIC #A13-029, PHASE II, EM PHOTONICS, INCORPORATED$2M
    Department of the Army· New Castle County, DE· Research & development· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· W5170126CA029
  2. SBIR PH II- EM PHOTONICS$1.7M
    Department of the Army· New Castle County, DE· Research & development· Oct 12, 2023 – Nov 18, 2025· W9113M24C0060
  3. 873AUTHORITY$500K
    Department of the Navy· New Castle County, DE· Research & development· Oct 8, 2025 – Oct 8, 2025· N6833526C0004

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

  1. TOP GRAIN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$3.6M−100% in FY2026
    HOUSTON, TX · 81% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  2. DSG TEC USA INC$3.6M
    WESTMINSTER, MD · 80% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. ALLEN CONTROL SYSTEMS, INC.$3.5M+28% in FY2026
    AUSTIN, TX · 80% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.