Federal contractor · SANTA BARBARA, CA

PACIFIC OPTICA, INC.

PACIFIC OPTICA, INC. received $734.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Its largest customer was National Institutes of Health ($734.2K). It also received $723.3K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$734.2K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 734.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institutes of Health$734.2K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$734.2K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Santa Barbara County, CA$734.2K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $734.2K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $734.2K
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. National Institutes of Health$734.2K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. NIMH: SUPPLY: TWO-PHOTON MESOSCALE IMAGING SYSTEM$734.2K
    National Institutes of Health· Santa Barbara County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 2, 2026 – Jun 2, 2026· 75N98026P00659

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.

PACIFIC OPTICA, INC. received $723.3K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (0 new awards). Its largest program was 93.242 · Mental Health Research Grants ($723.3K).

Assistance · FY2026
$723.3K
New awards
0
Actions
2
Since FY2023
$1.3M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 292.6KFY2023
  2. 288KFY2024
  3. 723.3KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$723.3K100%

Top programs

  1. 93.242 · Mental Health Research Grants$723.3K100%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$723.3K100%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. ADVANCED OPTICS TO UNLOCK LARGE FIELD-OF-VIEW MULTIPHOTON IMAGING FOR NEUROSCIENCEAND BEYOND - PROJECT SUMMARY BIOMEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS…$723.3K
    93.242 · Mental Health Research Grants· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jul 14, 2026 – Jul 14, 2026· R44MH136563
  2. ADVANCED OPTICS TO UNLOCK LARGE FIELD-OF-VIEW MULTIPHOTON IMAGING FOR NEUROSCIENCE AND BEYOND - PROJECT SUMMARY CURRENTLY AVAILABLE OPTICAL…$580.5K
    93.242 · Mental Health Research Grants· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Sep 19, 2023 – Dec 31, 2025· R41MH136563

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2023–FY2026.

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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. POLAREAN INC$750K−100% in FY2026
    DURHAM, NC · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. LUMICKS USA INC$1M−67% in FY2026
    MORRISVILLE, NC · 2 entities · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  3. SABLE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, INC$1.1M0% in FY2026
    NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing

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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.