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Apa Optics, Inc.

MN · SBIR awardee across 3 federal programs (DoD, NASA, NSF), first award 1985.

59SBIR awards

$9MSBIR $

43 → 16Phase I → II

$0Follow-on federal $

0Follow-on contracts

SBIR awards by program

Program	Awards	SBIR $	Phase I	Phase II
DoD	47	$8M	33	14
NASA	8	$917,403	6	2
NSF	4	$197,445	4	0

Mission areas

Air Force
Army
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Missile Defense Agency
Navy
Communications & Navigation
Human Spaceflight & Life Support
Materials & Manufacturing
Spacecraft & Avionics
Photonics & Sensors

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Data: SBIR.gov award records + USAspending.gov prime contracts, matched by recipient name. Follow-on dollars are association, not causation — they show where this firm's later federal prime-contract dollars landed, not that SBIR work caused them. Methodology