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OPTIMAL SYNTHESIS INC.

CA · SBIR awardee across 2 federal programs (DoD, NASA), first award 1994.

107SBIR awards

$30MSBIR $

75 → 32Phase I → II

$25MFollow-on federal $

65Follow-on contracts

SBIR awards by program

Program	Awards	SBIR $	Phase I	Phase II
DoD	51	$16M	36	15
NASA	56	$15M	39	17

Mission areas

Air Force
Army
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Missile Defense Agency
Navy
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Aeronautics
Communications & Navigation
Human Spaceflight & Life Support
Propulsion
Science Instruments & Sensors
Software & Modeling
Spacecraft & Avionics

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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