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Physical Optics Corporation (AKA: POC~Mercury Mission Systems LLC) Profile last edited on: 6/15/24
CAGE: 0AZ36
UEI: DG3AB4E8R4D8
Business Identifier: Systems integrator integrating photonics, holography, electronics and software into systems across a range of military, government and private sector market applications Is this YOUR Company?
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Location Information
Location: Multiple
Congr. District: 43
County: Los Angeles
Congr. District: 43
County: Los Angeles
Public Profile
Founded in 1985 with its first SBIR coming from NSF with the proposal crafted by Founder Joanna Jannsen on their kitchen table not long after arriving in the US from Poland, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) became a major player in the SBIR-STTR arena - a highly innovative, employee-owned company. With a strong and long-time continuing presence in the SBIR area, POC is usefully understood as a systems integrator of advanced technology, serving military and defense and homeland security, along with selected commercial markets - medical, communication, movie theaters, consumer appliances, automotive, and biotechnology. Working often in collaboration with a range of major and mid-sized corporations, the firm grew through the years to almost 350 employees with a high percentage of PhDs across a range of scientific and engineering disciplines. Holding over 160 issued patents worldwide, covering 60 technologies, the firm was always a source of innovative research and development, focused on several strategic thrust areas and advanced programs, including full-rate platform production, In December 2020 it was announced that Andover, MA based Mercury Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a leader in trusted, secure mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defense, had completed acquisition of Physical Optics Corporation (POC) in a cash transaction valued at over $310M. End of an era.
Extent of SBIR involvement
Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition
Employee Range
250-500Revenue Range
20M-50MVC funded?
YesPublic/Private
Privately HeldStock Info
----IP Holdings
150-249Awards Distribution by Agency
Most Recent SBIR Projects
Year | Phase | Agency | Total Amount | |
---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | 1 | AF | $49,997 | |
Project Title: Automatic Deep Learning-based Target Identification with Semantic Reasoner for Autonomous Collaborative Weapons | ||||
2021 | 1 | NGA | $99,997 | |
Project Title: Automated Camera Orientation Recovery Software | ||||
2021 | 2 | CBD | $1,798,995 | |
Project Title: Wavelet-Based Approach for Signal Processing and Analysis | ||||
2020 | 1 | Navy | $139,999 | |
Project Title: E-field Magnetic Acoustic Fusion Sonobuoy | ||||
2020 | 2 | Navy | $839,989 | |
Project Title: Electronic Warfare Events Logging Automation |
Key People / Management
Joanna L Jannson -- Founder, Former President / CEO and Chairman of the Board
Kevin Walter -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Ilya Agurok
Pauline Paki Amouzou
Victor Arellano -- Senior Staff Systems Engineer
Anna Asanbaeva
Aramais Avakian
Vijay Bandekar
John Bell
Ihor Berezhnyy
Justin Bishop
Daniel Bock
Hans-Peter Brecht
Scott A Bredow
John Buell
Leonid Bukshpun -- Director, Applied Intelligent Systems
Wesley Burkhard -- Optical Design Engineer
Emily Campbell -- Media Contact
Gene Campbell
Van Tri Tuc Cao
Albert Cardona
Luis Carranza
Chung-Yen Chao -- Group Leader Microtechnology
Ray T Chen
Valeriy Chirkov
Jae Choi
Kang-Bin Chua -- Director, Autonomous Systems
Roy Clark
Kevin D Degrood
Edward Dehoog
Gordon Drew -- Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Mark Drzymkowski -- Director of Technology Transitioning
Dan Edmans -- Director, Government Relations
Vladimir Esterkin -- Director
Omar Facory -- Director, Government Relations
Tunchen DAniel Fang
Gerald L Fitzpatrick
Mark W Foster
Norbert Fruehauf
Richard Gajewski
Sergei Galkin
Eric Gans
Nicholas Garcia
Ofir Garcia-Salazar -- Senior Scientist
Alexander Genusov -- Director, Electronic Systems Development
Michael Gertsenshteyn
Armen Gholian -- Senior Research Scientist
Alfred Goldsmith
Victor Grubsky
Eunhee Han
Kwangsu "sam" Han -- Director, Hardware Engineer
Mark Harrison
Todd Hester
Jay Hirsh
David Hitchcock -- Team Leader
Z Ho
Sonny Hoang
Ms Holland
Allen Hollister
Derek Huddleston
Carol Jacobus -- Marketing Supervisor
Tomaz P Jannson -- Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Steve Jiang
Ian Jimenez -- Director, Embedded Systems
Gabriel Kaplan
Anup Katake
Vladimir Katsman
Shahzad Khalid
Alexander Khaydarov
Dai Hyun Kim
Keehoon Kim
Richard Kim
Iouri V Kompaniets
Oleg Korovyanko
Andrew Kostrzewski -- Senior Vice President, Strategic Technologies & Chief Engineer
Olga Kuklina
Chai Pei Kuo
Kang S Lee
Kenneth Levin
Wayne Lian
Shing-Hong Lin
William Liu
Martin Lopez
Taiwei Lu
Robert Lundy -- Business Official
Jhy-Ming Luo
Jimmy Luo
Vladimir Manasson
Richard Mann
John Matthews
Shean McMahon
Gennady Medvedkin
Wondwosen Mengesha
Naresh Menon
Eddy Milanes
David Miller
Alexander Milovanov -- Senior Systems Engineer
Mark Mitchell
Dhruv Monga -- Software Engineer
Behzad Moslehi
Michael E Moyer -- Group Leader, Avionics Displays
Emily Murtha -- Marketing Administrator
Achothan Nair
Alexander Naumov
Matthew Neil
Bak Ng -- Senior Staff Software Engineer
Eddie Ng
Samuel Nieva
Marvin G Niimura
Albert Okorogu
Sergei Orlov
Roman Ostroumov
Pauline Paki-Amouzou
Allen S Panahi
Ninad Patnekar -- Director, Innovative Technologies
Edward Patton
Gregory Peng
Shengji Peng
Wei Peng
W Reed Phillips
William Phillips
Michael Piliavin
Yuri Plotkin
Ranjit Pradhan -- Vice President
Ninad P Pratnekar -- Director Innovative Technologies
John D Prohaska
Sihai Qian
Wei Qiu
Srivatsa V Rao
Michael Reznikov
Vahid Riasati
Matthew Rickard
Alexander Rizkin
Sookwang Ro
Mahsa Rohanizadeh
Mahsa Rouhanizadeh
Lev Sadovnik
Pedro Salazar
Berta Sandberg
Sergey Sandomirsky
Niusha Sarkhosh -- Director, Advanced RF Systems
Ms Niua S Sarkosh
Gajendra D Savant -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Jerry Schell
Edward Schmidlin
Paul Schnitser
Keith Seawright -- Director, Business Development AF and Unmanned Programs
Vladimir Sevastyanov
Joseph Seymour
Alireza Shapoury
Alireza Shapoury
Prachee Sharma -- Director, Information Systems
Patty Shaw
Megan Shie -- Government Relations & Tradeshows Administrator
Ricke Shie -- Senior Vice President & Chief Strategic Officer
Min-Yi Shih
Robert Shih
Freddie Shing-Hong
Paul Shnitser -- Technology Vice President
Sueh-Wen Siao
David J Silvestris -- Director, Business Development
Ponniah Sivanesan
Kalin Spariosu
Cristina Spence -- Business Official
Dmitry S Starodubov
Lenka Stepan
Eva Strzelecki
Christian Suh
Davis Tran
Sanjay Tripathi
Tri Tuc
Peter Twiss
Chris Ulmer
Anatoly Vasiliev
Avinash Vasudevan
Robert Waldo -- Director, Business Development Naval Programs
Gregory Waligorski
Wayne W Wang
Wenjian Wang
Robert Wedeen
Chi Wey
Aristo Wibawa -- Director, Systems Engineering
Paul Wilkinson
Frank Willis -- VP Business Development Military and Aerospace
Nathan Wong
Steve Wong
Shudong Wu
Xiaowei Xia
Dan Xiang -- Research Engineer
Brian H Xu -- Research Scientist
Guoda Xu
Baolong Yu
Kevin Yu
Mohamad Zahzah
Gregory Zeltser
Fang Zhang
Hansheng Zhang
Sean Zhang
Zhanxiang Zhang
Mingjun Zhao
Yunlu Zou
Kevin Walter -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Ilya Agurok
Pauline Paki Amouzou
Victor Arellano -- Senior Staff Systems Engineer
Anna Asanbaeva
Aramais Avakian
Vijay Bandekar
John Bell
Ihor Berezhnyy
Justin Bishop
Daniel Bock
Hans-Peter Brecht
Scott A Bredow
John Buell
Leonid Bukshpun -- Director, Applied Intelligent Systems
Wesley Burkhard -- Optical Design Engineer
Emily Campbell -- Media Contact
Gene Campbell
Van Tri Tuc Cao
Albert Cardona
Luis Carranza
Chung-Yen Chao -- Group Leader Microtechnology
Ray T Chen
Valeriy Chirkov
Jae Choi
Kang-Bin Chua -- Director, Autonomous Systems
Roy Clark
Kevin D Degrood
Edward Dehoog
Gordon Drew -- Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Mark Drzymkowski -- Director of Technology Transitioning
Dan Edmans -- Director, Government Relations
Vladimir Esterkin -- Director
Omar Facory -- Director, Government Relations
Tunchen DAniel Fang
Gerald L Fitzpatrick
Mark W Foster
Norbert Fruehauf
Richard Gajewski
Sergei Galkin
Eric Gans
Nicholas Garcia
Ofir Garcia-Salazar -- Senior Scientist
Alexander Genusov -- Director, Electronic Systems Development
Michael Gertsenshteyn
Armen Gholian -- Senior Research Scientist
Alfred Goldsmith
Victor Grubsky
Eunhee Han
Kwangsu "sam" Han -- Director, Hardware Engineer
Mark Harrison
Todd Hester
Jay Hirsh
David Hitchcock -- Team Leader
Z Ho
Sonny Hoang
Ms Holland
Allen Hollister
Derek Huddleston
Carol Jacobus -- Marketing Supervisor
Tomaz P Jannson -- Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Steve Jiang
Ian Jimenez -- Director, Embedded Systems
Gabriel Kaplan
Anup Katake
Vladimir Katsman
Shahzad Khalid
Alexander Khaydarov
Dai Hyun Kim
Keehoon Kim
Richard Kim
Iouri V Kompaniets
Oleg Korovyanko
Andrew Kostrzewski -- Senior Vice President, Strategic Technologies & Chief Engineer
Olga Kuklina
Chai Pei Kuo
Kang S Lee
Kenneth Levin
Wayne Lian
Shing-Hong Lin
William Liu
Martin Lopez
Taiwei Lu
Robert Lundy -- Business Official
Jhy-Ming Luo
Jimmy Luo
Vladimir Manasson
Richard Mann
John Matthews
Shean McMahon
Gennady Medvedkin
Wondwosen Mengesha
Naresh Menon
Eddy Milanes
David Miller
Alexander Milovanov -- Senior Systems Engineer
Mark Mitchell
Dhruv Monga -- Software Engineer
Behzad Moslehi
Michael E Moyer -- Group Leader, Avionics Displays
Emily Murtha -- Marketing Administrator
Achothan Nair
Alexander Naumov
Matthew Neil
Bak Ng -- Senior Staff Software Engineer
Eddie Ng
Samuel Nieva
Marvin G Niimura
Albert Okorogu
Sergei Orlov
Roman Ostroumov
Pauline Paki-Amouzou
Allen S Panahi
Ninad Patnekar -- Director, Innovative Technologies
Edward Patton
Gregory Peng
Shengji Peng
Wei Peng
W Reed Phillips
William Phillips
Michael Piliavin
Yuri Plotkin
Ranjit Pradhan -- Vice President
Ninad P Pratnekar -- Director Innovative Technologies
John D Prohaska
Sihai Qian
Wei Qiu
Srivatsa V Rao
Michael Reznikov
Vahid Riasati
Matthew Rickard
Alexander Rizkin
Sookwang Ro
Mahsa Rohanizadeh
Mahsa Rouhanizadeh
Lev Sadovnik
Pedro Salazar
Berta Sandberg
Sergey Sandomirsky
Niusha Sarkhosh -- Director, Advanced RF Systems
Ms Niua S Sarkosh
Gajendra D Savant -- Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Jerry Schell
Edward Schmidlin
Paul Schnitser
Keith Seawright -- Director, Business Development AF and Unmanned Programs
Vladimir Sevastyanov
Joseph Seymour
Alireza Shapoury
Alireza Shapoury
Prachee Sharma -- Director, Information Systems
Patty Shaw
Megan Shie -- Government Relations & Tradeshows Administrator
Ricke Shie -- Senior Vice President & Chief Strategic Officer
Min-Yi Shih
Robert Shih
Freddie Shing-Hong
Paul Shnitser -- Technology Vice President
Sueh-Wen Siao
David J Silvestris -- Director, Business Development
Ponniah Sivanesan
Kalin Spariosu
Cristina Spence -- Business Official
Dmitry S Starodubov
Lenka Stepan
Eva Strzelecki
Christian Suh
Davis Tran
Sanjay Tripathi
Tri Tuc
Peter Twiss
Chris Ulmer
Anatoly Vasiliev
Avinash Vasudevan
Robert Waldo -- Director, Business Development Naval Programs
Gregory Waligorski
Wayne W Wang
Wenjian Wang
Robert Wedeen
Chi Wey
Aristo Wibawa -- Director, Systems Engineering
Paul Wilkinson
Frank Willis -- VP Business Development Military and Aerospace
Nathan Wong
Steve Wong
Shudong Wu
Xiaowei Xia
Dan Xiang -- Research Engineer
Brian H Xu -- Research Scientist
Guoda Xu
Baolong Yu
Kevin Yu
Mohamad Zahzah
Gregory Zeltser
Fang Zhang
Hansheng Zhang
Sean Zhang
Zhanxiang Zhang
Mingjun Zhao
Yunlu Zou