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LONGWAVE PHOTONICS LLC

LONGWAVE PHOTONICS LLC received $225K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+648% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $5.6M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($225K).

Obligations · FY2026
$225K
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
ND53H94AU844
Small businessMinority-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 425KFY2017
  2. 1.4MFY2018
  3. 1.3MFY2019
  4. 12KFY2020
  5. 703.1KFY2021
  6. 736.9KFY2022
  7. 258.5KFY2023
  8. 481.1KFY2024
  9. 30.1KFY2025
  10. 225KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$225K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$225K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Santa Clara County, CA$225K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • 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 PHASE I - RECEIVER FOR SPACE WEATHER ATOMIC OXYGEN MEASUREMENT$225K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Clara County, CA· Research & development· Sep 3, 2026 – Sep 3, 2026· 80NSSC26C0266

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

LONGWAVE PHOTONICS LLC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
0
Since FY2021
$256.6K

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 256.6KFY2021
  2. 0FY2024

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2021–FY2024.

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. MACDONALD, DETTWILER AND ASSOCIATES INC$573.7K
    KANATA, CAN · 2 entities · 77% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  2. XIOMAS TECHNOLOGIES LLC$586.7K
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 77% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  3. KALSI ENGINEERING, INC$586.8K−100% in FY2026
    SUGAR LAND, TX · 77% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services

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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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.