Federal contractor · TUCSON, AZ

N.P. PHOTONICS, INC.

N.P. PHOTONICS, INC. received $3.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+34% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $28.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($2.1M). It also received $306.9K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$3.4M
New awards
5
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.7MFY2017
  2. 1.3MFY2018
  3. 3.4MFY2019
  4. 2.7MFY2020
  5. 1.9MFY2021
  6. 4.5MFY2022
  7. 3.5MFY2023
  8. 3MFY2024
  9. 2.6MFY2025
  10. 3.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$2.1M61%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$1.1M32%
    3 awards
  3. Departmental Offices$250K7.3%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$3.4M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Pima County, AZ$3.4M100%

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 8.7% · $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. POWER SCALABLE 1762 NM SINGLE-FREQUENCY LASER FOR BARIUM ION QUBITS THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS EFFORT IS TO DESIGN, BUILD, TEST, AND DELIVER A POWER-SCALABLE, SINGLE-FREQUENCY FIBER LASER PROTOTYPE OPERATING AT 1762 NM.$2.1M
    Department of the Air Force· Pima County, AZ· Research & development· Apr 2, 2026 – Apr 2, 2026· FA875026CB038
  2. BASE$1.8M
    Department of the Navy· Pima County, AZ· Research & development· Jun 3, 2024 – Mar 23, 2026· N0002424CS015
  3. BASE AWARD FOR STTR PHASE II TOPIC #N22A-T010.$1.3M
    Department of the Navy· Pima County, AZ· Research & development· Feb 10, 2025 – Feb 25, 2026· N0002425CT020
  4. BASE AWARD FOR STTR PHASE II TOPIC # N23A-T012$719.4K
    Department of the Navy· Pima County, AZ· Research & development· May 28, 2025 – Dec 3, 2025· N0002425CT016
  5. PHASE I SBIR - 10-KW-CLASS SINGLE-MODE FIBER AMPLIFIER$250K
    Departmental Offices· Pima County, AZ· Research & development· Dec 11, 2025 – Jul 29, 2026· 140D0426P0006

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.

N.P. PHOTONICS, INC. received $306.9K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (1 new awards). Its largest program was 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training ($306.9K).

Assistance · FY2026
$306.9K
New awards
1
Actions
2
Since FY2021
$3.1M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 200KFY2021
  2. 1.3MFY2022
  3. 220KFY2023
  4. 1.1MFY2024
  5. 0FY2025
  6. 306.9KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$306.9K100%

Top programs

  1. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$306.9K100%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$306.9K100%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. LOW-NONLINEARITY YB-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER ARRAYS FOR ULTRAFAST FIBER LASER COMBINING$1.3M
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Project grant· Aug 11, 2023 – Sep 15, 2026· DESC0024019
  2. LOW-COST ROBUST COMPACT 900 NM FEMTOSECOND LASER SOURCE FOR TWO-PHOTON MICROSCOPY - ABSTRACT ULTRASHORT PULSE LASERS WITH PEAK POWERS >1 KW…$306.9K
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Sep 1, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026· R43GM165163

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $40K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $33.8K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $30.7K 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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

2 companies · $104.5K reported

  1. LEIDOS, INC.$64.5K
    RESTON, VA · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$40K
    LEXINGTON, MA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 5 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. HEPBURN AND SONS LLC$7.9M−70% in FY2026
    MANASSAS, VA · 84% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. MACHINA COGNITA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$7.4M−21% in FY2026
    CARLSBAD, CA · 77% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  3. IRGLARE, LLC$7.2M+70% in FY2026
    ORLANDO, FL · 75% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.