Federal contractor · LOVELAND, CO

OPTERUS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, INC

OPTERUS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, INC received $1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (−91% vs FY2025). Since FY2018: $27M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($599.5K).

Obligations · FY2026
$1M
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. 246.9KFY2018
  2. 1.5MFY2019
  3. 2.9MFY2020
  4. 1.2MFY2021
  5. 3.5MFY2022
  6. 3.4MFY2023
  7. 1.2MFY2024
  8. 12MFY2025
  9. 1MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$599.5K57%
    1 awards
  2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$449.4K43%
    4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$1M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Larimer County, CO$1M100%

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. GEN1 SOLAR SAIL DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM$10.2M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Larimer County, CO· Research & development· Jun 9, 2025 – Sep 29, 2026· 80NSSC25CA081
  2. SBIR PHASE II TOPIC N221-072$2M
    Department of the Navy· Larimer County, CO· Research & development· Aug 30, 2023 – Mar 31, 2026· N6833523C0658
  3. SBIR PHASE II PROPOSAL #80NSSC25C0041 ENTITLED "CONDUCTIVE SOLID SURFACE DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA FOR SPACE-BASED REMOTE SENSING"$849.9K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Larimer County, CO· Research & development· Jul 2, 2025 – Jun 11, 2026· 80NSSC25C0041
  4. SBIR PHASE I BOOM-ACTUATED MORPHING SAIL SYSTEM$224.9K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Larimer County, CO· Research & development· Sep 22, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026· 80NSSC26C0292
  5. SBIR PHASE I ADAPTABLE SOLAR ARRAY SUPPORT$224.5K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Larimer County, CO· Research & development· Sep 3, 2026 – Sep 3, 2026· 80NSSC26C0293

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 · $156.6K received
  • FY2024: $479.9K paid out · $0 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

1 company · $479.9K reported

  1. UNDERSEA SENSOR SYSTEMS, INC.$479.9K
    COLUMBIA CITY, IN · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $156.6K reported

  1. GEORGIA TECH APPLIED RESEARCH CORP$115K
    ATLANTA, GA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  2. ORBITAL MICRO SYSTEMS, INC.$41.6K
    BOULDER, CO · 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 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 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. VISTA PHOTONICS, INC$12.7M−90% in FY2026
    LAS CRUCES, NM · 89% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  2. REDWIRE SPACE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$14.5M−76% in FY2026
    GREENVILLE, IN · 92% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  3. MAGNIX USA INC$11.3M
    EVERETT, WA · 80% 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.