Ophir Corporation Earns ISO 9001:2008 Certification and expands scope to include Software.
10/8/10 Ophir Corporation received certification for ISO 9001:2008 and AS 9100-B and has expanded the scope to include software.  Read the Release

Ophir Awarded Navy Sensor Contract for Airborne, Mine Countermeasure Operations
3/25/10  Ophir Corporation wins Navy sensor contract for improved mine detection operations in shallow water.  Read the release

Ophir's founder and CEO retires
10/16/2009 Dr. Loren Nelson founder and long-time leader of Ophir Corporation has retired. Read the release

Ophir wins Air Force sensor contract!
3/12/2009  A new sensor is under development at Ophir for improved identification of ground objects from aircraft for the Air Force. Read the release

Ophir Physicist presents papers at CEDAR and the ILRC in June.
6/18/2008  Physicist Phillip Acott gives a presentation about the study of momentum flux in the mesopause and tidal interactions. Read the release

Ophir names new president.
4/18/2008  Martin O'Brien moves to the president position at Ophir Corporation.  Dr. Loren Nelson becomes CEO and chairman.    Read the release

Can you see me now?  Ophir rescue of the B-2 bomber program revealed! 
7/15/2007  Air & Space Magazine article about contrails discloses Ophir's vital role in the "stealthiness" of the B-2 Stealth Bomber!    Read more about it.

Ophir beams up to AS9100.
4/11/2006  Ophir Corporation beams up to a new level: AS9100 certification! Ophir Corporation has boldly gone where few small product development firms have gone before.  Ophir has achieved its goal to be AS9100 certified! Read the release

Turbulence brings a new NSF grant to Ophir.
1/11/2006  The National Science Foundation awards grant for research of a turbulence sensor.  Detection and measurement of turbulence ahead of an airborne vehicle is the subject of a new Ophir research study funded by a $99,000 National Science Foundation grant. A sensor technology that can detect turbulent events well ahead of the aircraft will provide a significant cost and safety benefit to the commercial airline industry and its customers.  Read the release.

NASA Dryden Aerovations publication features Ophir SBIR project.
12/5/2005  Ophir's Optical Air Data System Research is highlighted. Ophir has completed four Small Business Innovative Research projects funded by NASA Dryden, including a Phase I and II for development of Rayleigh/Mie lidar for non-intrusive measurement of aircraft air data parameters. Read the article

Ophir Corporation celebrates 25 successful years.
10/5/2005  Ophir celebrates 25 years of optical sensing research and development with a new look.  Read the article.

Measuring the invisible…sky sensors !
7/12/2005  Ophir Corporation recently received a patent for a pioneering optical system that measures the air outside a moving aircraft.  This system may be used to measure the air parameters that affect aircraft operation; in essence it will optically profile the atmosphere.  Read the article.

Transmission Pipeline Leaks Measured from the Sky
3/23/05 Ophir Corporation, a Littleton, Colorado, small business, successfully completed flight tests of its duoThane® pipeline leak detector.  Read the release.