Federal contractor · ALBANY, NY

ION OPTICS INC

ION OPTICS INC received $878.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 16 awards (+13% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $3M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($493.8K).

Obligations · FY2026
$878.5K
New awards
16
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
57%
UEI
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Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 246.7KFY2017
  2. 148.5KFY2018
  3. 443.4KFY2019
  4. 98.7KFY2020
  5. 128.3KFY2021
  6. 88.3KFY2022
  7. 2.6KFY2023
  8. 196.5KFY2024
  9. 777.5KFY2025
  10. 878.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 6 awards
  2. 10 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$517.7K59%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$360.8K41%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition57%
    US 39% · $501.7K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions57%
    US 8.8% · $501.7K
  • 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. Defense Logistics Agency· Albany County, NY· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 9, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· SPE7M226P1225
  2. Department of the Navy· Albany County, NY· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 1, 2026 – Feb 1, 2026· N6833526LKEFEB08
  3. Department of the Navy· Albany County, NY· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Feb 19, 2026 – Feb 19, 2026· N6833526F1036
  4. Department of the Navy· Albany County, NY· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 18, 2026 – Mar 18, 2026· N6833526F1054
  5. Department of the Navy· Albany County, NY· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· N6833526LKEAPR09
  6. Defense Logistics Agency· Albany County, NY· Other equipment & supplies· May 21, 2026 – May 21, 2026· SPE7L026F4090
  7. Defense Logistics Agency· Albany County, NY· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Feb 9, 2026 – May 27, 2026· SPE7M226P1529
  8. Defense Logistics Agency· Albany County, NY· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 23, 2025 – Oct 23, 2025· SPE7L026F0500

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

  1. MELBOURNE, FL · 61% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing
  2. AVANTECH, LLC$997.9K−30% in FY2026
    COLUMBIA, SC · 54% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing
  3. PETALUMA, CA · 73% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing

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.