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Highri Optics, Inc.: SBIR & STTR awards
13 awards worth $7.35M to 1 companies since 2020 match these filters. Phase I tests an idea (usually a few hundred thousand dollars); Phase II builds it (often $1M or more).
Highri Optics, Inc.'s federal contracts and grants · All SBIR & STTR awards
Awards by year
| Year | Phase I | Phase II | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | $548.5K |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | $1.48M |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | $2.25M |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | $350.0K |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | $1.49M |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | $1.22M |
The latest year fills in over months: agencies report awards to SBIR.gov with a lag.
By agency
- Department of Energy 5 awards · $3.75M
- Department of Defense 1 awards · $1.49M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration 4 awards · $1.32M
- Department of Commerce 3 awards · $782.9K
Latest matching awards
| Award | Company | Agency | Phase | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BINARY PSEUDO RANDOM ARRAY (BPRA) FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF OPTICAL IMAGERS · topic 2 | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | Department of Commerce · National Institute of Standards and Technology | SBIR Phase II | $399.9K | 2025-10-01 |
| Rapid Low-Loss Polymer PIC Platforms Using High-Index Nanoimprintable Materials · topic T8 | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | STTR Phase I | $148.6K | 2025-09-17 |
| Binary Pseudo Random Array (BPRA) Standards, Protocol, and Software for EUV Lithography Tool Enhancement · topic 6 | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | Department of Commerce · National Institute of Standards and Technology – CHIPS | SBIR Phase I | $283.0K | 2024-09-17 |
| BINARY PSEUDO RANDOM ARRAY (BPRA) FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF OPTICAL IMAGERS · topic 2 | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | Department of Commerce · National Institute of Standards and Technology | SBIR Phase I | $100.0K | 2024-05-15 |
| Highly Efficient Low Loss Fiber-Chip Light Coupling for Quantum Networks · topic C55-04b | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | Department of Energy | SBIR Phase II | $1.10M | 2024-04-01 |
| Binary Pseudo-Random Array (BPRA) Standards for Inspection and Calibration of Cylindrical Wavefront Interferometry · topic S12 | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | SBIR Phase II | $899.9K | 2023-06-08 |
| Automatic Characterization of Sub-nm Surface Height Errors of Aspherical Mirrors by 2D Data Reconstruction · topic C53-07b | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | Department of Energy | SBIR Phase II | $1.15M | 2023-04-03 |
| Highly Efficient Low Loss Fiber-Chip Light Coupling for Quantum Networks · topic C55-04b | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | Department of Energy | SBIR Phase I | $199.9K | 2023-02-21 |
| Binary Pseudo-Random Array (BPRA) standards for Inspection and Calibration of Cylindrical Wavefront Interferometry · topic S12 | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | SBIR Phase I | $150.0K | 2022-07-21 |
| Automatic Characterization of Sub-nm Surface Height Errors of Aspherical Mirrors by 2D Data Reconstruction · topic C53-07b | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | Department of Energy | SBIR Phase I | $200.0K | 2022-02-14 |
| Hydrophobic and wide-angle anti-reflecting nanostructured coatings on hemispherical domes and windows; including high-refractive index surfaces · topic N171-045 | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | Department of Defense · Navy | SBIR Phase II | $1.49M | 2021-02-23 |
| Beyond Resolution Reconstruction of Surface Metrology Data · topic S2 | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | SBIR Phase I | $125.0K | 2020-08-27 |
| Low-Cost Hybrid Plasmonic and Photonic "Campanile" Near-Field Probes by Nanoimprint Lithography · topic 07a | Highri Optics, Inc. · California | Department of Energy | STTR Phase II | $1.10M | 2020-04-06 |
Source: SBIR.gov award data (SBA) ↗, awards through 2026-08-28. Amounts are as agencies report them to SBA. SBIR/STTR contracts also appear in USAspending as ordinary awards; grants (NIH, NSF, DOE) appear as assistance. Open topics are posted by each agency; see Opportunities for contract notices.