Company Profile

Optelecom-NKF Inc (AKA: Optelecom, Inc~Optelecom-NKF, Inc)
Profile last edited on: 9/25/2015      CAGE: 59338      UEI: LYCMYZBYDGF3

Business Identifier: Designs and manufactures communication products that transport data, video, and audio over high-speed internet, ethernet, and fiber optic cables
Year Founded
1972
First Award
1984
Latest Award
2001
Program Status
Inactive (Acquired)
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Location Information

12920 Cloverleaf Center Drive
Germantown, MD 20874
   (301) 444-2200
   eludwig@optelecom-nkf.com
   www.optelecom-nkf.com
Location: Multiple
Congr. District: 06
County: Montgomery

Public Profile

In January of 2011, Optelecom-NKF was acquired by TKH Group. Inc Optelecom Inc manufacture broadcast quality audio/video transceivers, high speed clock and data synchronous modems, camera mount mini FM transmitters, surveillance systems and cable assemblies. Optelecom makes communications equipment for transmitting voice, data, and video. The company's high bandwidth, fiber-optic and copper-based products are used in process control, video signal transmission (including closed-circuit television), and traffic-monitoring equipment. Optelecom also sells laser systems and rotation sensing equipment such as gyro coils used in aircraft and missiles by government defense customers.

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
150-249
Revenue Range
15M-20M
VC funded?
Yes
Public/Private
Publicly Traded
Stock Info
NASDAQ : OPTC
IP Holdings
20-24

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2001 2 AF $894,355
Project Title: Aeronautical Sciences and Flight Control Technology for Military Aerospace Vehicles
1995 1 Army $48,565
Project Title: Automatic on line high strength fiber optic splicing
1995 1 MDA $46,417
Project Title: Improved remote distance measurement techniques
1995 1 MDA $58,176
Project Title: Rapidly Reconfiguring Optical Interconnects
1992 2 DARPA $827,233
Project Title: Coil winding machinery for interferometric fiber optic gyro manufacturability

Key People / Management

  Edmund D Ludwig -- President

  Kendall L Belsley

  William H Culver

  Larry A Hess

  Robert Hoffman

  Irving Saks

  Ronald H Smith