W5170126CA112↗

Name: W5170126CA112: Develop an Application-Specific Photonic Integrated Circuit to Serve a Specific Quantum System (E.G. Rydberg Sensor, Clock Transition).
Creator: SpendQuery

DEVELOP AN APPLICATION-SPECIFIC PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TO SERVE A SPECIFIC QUANTUM SYSTEM (E.G. RYDBERG SENSOR, CLOCK TRANSITION).

Definitive Contract · Department of the Army · to Nexus Photonics, Inc. (UEI GWGLE6NTKKX8) · data as of 2026-09-30

Obligated to date$1.65M4 actions

Current value$1.65Mwith options exercised

Period2026-04-06 → 2029-04-06current end date

What it is

Product or service: National Defense R&D Services; Department of Defense - Military; Applied Research (PSC AC12)
Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) (NAICS 541715)
Contracting office: W27P USA Acq SPT CTR (W51701)
Competition: Full and open after exclusion of sources · 3 offers received
Set-aside: Small business
Pricing: Firm fixed price
How it was bought: Standalone contract
Solicitation: N6893623R0026
Where the work is: Santa Barbara, CA · district CA-24
Topics: semiconductors

Obligations by fiscal year

FY2026$1.65M

SpendQuery holds FY2023 on; earlier years are on USAspending.gov.

Subcontractors: where the money went next

No subawards reported for this award. Primes report subawards of $30,000 or more; many awards have none.

Every action

4 actions since 2026-03-20. Each is a modification or amendment with the money it added or took back.

Date	Modification	Kind	Amount	What the agency wrote
2026-05-13	P00003	Administrative change	$0	DEVELOP AN APPLICATION-SPECIFIC PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TO SERVE A SPECIFIC QUANTUM SYSTEM (E.G. RYDBERG SENSOR, CLOCK TRANSITION).
2026-04-30	P00002	Administrative change	$0	DEVELOP AN APPLICATION-SPECIFIC PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TO SERVE A SPECIFIC QUANTUM SYSTEM (E.G. RYDBERG SENSOR, CLOCK TRANSITION).
2026-03-25	P00001	Administrative change	$0	DEVELOP AN APPLICATION-SPECIFIC PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TO SERVE A SPECIFIC QUANTUM SYSTEM (E.G. RYDBERG SENSOR, CLOCK TRANSITION).
2026-03-20	0		$1.65M	DEVELOP AN APPLICATION-SPECIFIC PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TO SERVE A SPECIFIC QUANTUM SYSTEM (E.G. RYDBERG SENSOR, CLOCK TRANSITION).

Source: USAspending.gov prime award transactions and FSRS subaward reports, as loaded by SpendQuery (data as of 2026-09-30). Amounts are obligations (money committed), not outlays. The official record on USAspending.gov ↗