Federal contractor · HUNTSVILLE, AL

OPTICAL SCIENCES, LLC

OPTICAL SCIENCES, LLC received $4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−42% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $26.3M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($1.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$4M
New awards
3
Sole-source
74%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
VALKYRIE ENTERPRISES, LLC
Small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the VALKYRIE ENTERPRISES, LLC company family: 6 registered entities, $36.9M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. VALKYRIE ENTERPRISES, LLCVIRGINIA BEACH, VA · Family page
    $29.5M
  2. VALKYRIE ENTERPRISES LLCFREDERICKSBURG, VA
    $3.4M
  3. SHIP 2 SHORE USA INCBROOKSHIRE, TX
    $0
  4. VALKYRIE ENTERPRISES, LLCMONTEREY, CA
    $0
  5. VALKYRIE ENTERPRISES, LLCNORFOLK, VA
    $0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · jev-1.13.0 · 2026-09-30

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.3MFY2017
  2. 964.9KFY2018
  3. 2.6MFY2019
  4. 1.6MFY2020
  5. 1.7MFY2021
  6. 1.6MFY2022
  7. 3MFY2023
  8. 1.5MFY2024
  9. 7MFY2025
  10. 4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$1.5M38%
    1 awards
  2. Defense Contract Management Agency$1.4M35%
    1 awards
  3. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.1M26%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$2.5M62%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$1.5M38%

Where the work was performed

  1. Madison County, AL$4M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition74%
    US 39% · $3M
  • Sole-source awards74%
    US 30% · $3M
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Air Force$1.5M
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. SBIR PHASE III THERMALLY EFFICIENT EMITTER ARRAY (TEEA)$11.5M
    Defense Contract Management Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Sep 18, 2020 – Apr 21, 2026· W900KK20C0044
  2. SPECIALIZED REAL-TIME DATA ANALYSIS AND SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT FOR ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS$4.9M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 2, 2021 – Sep 24, 2026· 80MSFC22FA012
  3. DMD BASED SCENE PROJECTOR$1.5M
    Department of the Air Force· Madison County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 13, 2026 – Mar 13, 2026· FA910126FB027

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

  • Sub-contracts: $45K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. BEYOND NEW HORIZONS, LLC$45K100%
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $10.6M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $65K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $2.2M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $1.8M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $45K 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

87 companies · $80M reported

  1. AERONAUTICAL & GENERAL INSTRUMENTS LIMITED$17.2M
    POOLE, GBR · 60 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. CAROUSEL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH AMERICA, LLC$7.1M
    PLANO, TX · 3 subawards · Wired telecommunications carriers
  3. NOBLIS, INC.$5.6M
    RESTON, VA · 19 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services

Primes that pay it

38 companies · $221.1M reported

  1. NATIONAL CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING SCIENCES INC$50.8M
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 6 subawards
  2. QED SYSTEMS, INC.$45.9M
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 6 subawards · Ship and boat building
  3. TORCH TECHNOLOGIES INC$16.4M
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 100 subawards · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 49 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. INFORMATION SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS, INC.$102.3M−9.2% in FY2026
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 50% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesArmy · Computer systems design and related services
  2. SENTAR, INC.$95.2M−49% in FY2026
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 48% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesArmy · Computer systems design and related services
  3. NDI ENGINEERING COMPANY$91.6M−18% in FY2026
    THOROFARE, NJ · 45% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesNavy · Ship and boat building

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.