Sources SoughtPosted Apr 24, 2025·Responses due May 15, 2025

Virtual Warfare Center Information Technology Support

Air Force and Space Force · FA4452 763 ESS

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541519
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
FA4452-25-VWCITS
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
Not stated
Place
Scott Air Force Base, IL, USA
Contact
Tonya Hughes (tonya.hughes.2@us.af.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation FA4452-25-VWCITS in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Apr 24, 2025 · this notice
    Sources Sought
  • May 8, 2025
    Sources Sought
    Open
  • Jul 22, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Jun 19, 2025 to Oct 20, 2025, middle of the range Jul 31, 2025.
Measured from 253 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Apr 24, 2025).

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT to determine the availability and technical capability of small businesses (including the following small business concerns: Small Disadvantaged Business, Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone); Small Business Administration 8(a) participant, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and Women-Owned Small Business) to provide the required products and/or services. The 763d ESS is seeking information for potential sources to provide Air Mobility Command (AMC) Directorate of Operations (A9) with Virtual Warfare Center (VWC) Information Technology (IT) Su… (show all)

pport. AMC/A9 manages and operates the state-of-the-art venue and modeling and simulation capability for AMC. The VWC system utilizes multiple global airlift, tanker, and warfighting computer models for evaluating air mobility capability in peacetime and wartime scenarios. These models range from various spreadsheet-based approaches to large-scale models and simulations such as the Analysis of Mobility Platform (AMP), the Air Refueling Model (ARM), Command Professional Edition (CPE), and the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM). The VWC maintains a workload on a cloud hosted Special Access Program (SAP) environment, to provide modeling and simulation support to various AMC research activities at higher classification levels. Please see the attached Sources Sought and Draft PWS for more information.

Who won similar work

48 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Air Force and Space Force), same NAICS 541519.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
FCN INC6$5.8MAug 12, 2025
COUNTERTRADE PRODUCTS, INC.2$5.3MJul 10, 2026
CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORP2$2.2MSep 30, 2026
WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY LLC2$2.0MJun 12, 2025
STERLING COMPUTERS CORPORATION2$539KJun 5, 2026
VCLOUD TECH INC2$171KJul 14, 2026
DSD LABORATORIES INC1$60.0MSep 21, 2026
DELTA POINT LLC1$52.9MMay 28, 2025
CREOAL CONSULTING LLC1$12.7MNov 6, 2025
CANADIAN COMMERCIAL CORPORATION1$12.3MMay 6, 2026

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 32 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards.

  • 0 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.