Manufacturing Research and Technology Development - Open Broad Agency Announcement
Air Force and Space Force · FA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL PZL AFRL/PZL
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation FA8650-21-S-5001 in this department, oldest first.
- Oct 17, 2023 · this noticeSolicitation
- Oct 17, 2023SolicitationOpen
- Apr 8, 2024Award NoticeRELATIVITY SPACE, INC. · $8.8MOpen
- Jun 11, 2024Award NoticeMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY Springfield MO 65897 USA · $4.4MOpen
- Sep 4, 2024Award NoticeARCTOS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, LLC · $4.3MOpen
- Jul 28, 2025Award NoticeUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Norman OK 73019 USA · $8.8MOpen
- Sep 30, 2025Award NoticeROHR, INC. · $5.1MOpen
Next steps for this stage
Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.
- Decide bid or no bid before the response deadline.
- Look at the past winners for likely competitors and teaming partners.
- Follow the opportunity to hear about amendments and the award.
What the notice says
FA8650-21-S-5001, Amendment 5 This amendment was for Call 002. Posting Location: https://sam.gov/opp/f7f77c120fb846a0a632b1aa7931e506/review FA8650-21-S-5001, Amendment 4 This amendment was for Call 001. FA8650-21-S-5001, Amendment 3 This amendment creates a Hybrid broad agency announcement allowing the Government to issue the solicitation of Calls. Summary of Changes: Hybrid BAA with Calls �Part One (Current) � Two Step Open BAA: Submission of White Papers and Potential Proposals �Part Two (New) � One Step Closed Solicitation of Calls: Submission of Proposals See attached amendment for specif… (show all)
ic details. FA8650-21-S-5001, Amendment 2 This amendment serves as the annual notice of an Open BAA as required by FAR 35.016. White papers are still being accepted against this BAA. Please see the initial BAA announcement for specific details on submitting white papers. This amendment updates the Government Contracting points of contacts for submitting white papers. FA8650-21-S-5001, Amendment 1 This amendment revises the original BAA announcement under Section III, Paragraph 5.a and Section IV, Paragraph 2.a. See attached amendment document for specific details of each revision. FA8650-21-S-5001 Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies Division (AFRL/RXM) is soliciting white papers (and later technical and cost proposals, if requested) under this open 2-step broad agency announcement (BAA) to support the needs of its manufacturing and technology mission. Descriptors of manufacturing technology interests are presented in the context of manufacturing research and technology development approaches and their applicability to the Air Force high impact technology domains. This information can be found in the attached Statement of Objectives (Atch 5_Statement of Objectives - SOO). The mission of the Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies Division is to lead the Air Force in developing the required technologies to achieve these objectives now and in the future. We will achieve our mission by performing research and development in Advanced Manufacturing technologies, specifically: inventing the factory of the future; building up the digital manufacturing enterprise; and exploring additive manufacturing and other Advanced Manufacturing technologies.
Who won similar work
8 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (FA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL PZL AFRL/PZL), same NAICS 541715.
Single-winner award sizes (8): middle half $3.3M to $19.8M, median $9.8M; range $442K to $87.7M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE Hazelwood PA 15207 USA | 1 | $87.7M | Apr 9, 2025 |
| BAE SYSTEMS SPACE & MISSION SYSTEMS INC. | 1 | $34.4M | Mar 11, 2025 |
| DCS CORPORATION | 1 | $15.0M | Sep 24, 2025 |
| SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS INC · $BA · $94.0B | 1 | $12.8M | Sep 30, 2025 |
| ADVANCED THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES LLC | 1 | $6.7M | Sep 30, 2025 |
| JANICKI INDUSTRIES INC | 1 | $4.0M | Nov 20, 2025 |
| ANDURIL INDUSTRIES, INC. | 1 | $1.0M | Aug 20, 2025 |
| OPTX IMAGING SYSTEMS LLC | 1 | $442K | May 18, 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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.
- $BA reported $94.0B revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 8 past awards, $9.8M, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing
One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.
- May 18, 2026OPTX IMAGING SYSTEMS LLC$442KMulti-Spectral Sensing Technologies Research and Development (MUSTER)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Nov 20, 2025JANICKI INDUSTRIES INC$4.0MManufacturing Research and Technology Development - Open Broad Agency AnnouncementNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 30, 2025ADVANCED THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES LLC$6.7MThermoplastic Composites for Large High-Rate Aircraft Structures"No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 30, 2025SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS INC$12.8MHypersonic Air-breather Research & Manurfacturing ExpansionMateriality: 0.01% of $BA revenue (Low) SEC
- Sep 24, 2025DCS CORPORATION$15.0MAdvanced Vibration and Impact Testing for Aircrew Resilience (AVITAR)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Aug 20, 2025ANDURIL INDUSTRIES, INC.$1.0MRocket Cargo - Capabilities StudyNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Apr 9, 2025ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE Hazelwood PA 15207 USA$87.7MAdvanced Robotics and Automation for Manufacturing & Sustainment (ARAMS}No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Mar 11, 2025BAE SYSTEMS SPACE & MISSION SYSTEMS INC.$34.4MForce Optimization through Rapid-Prototyping, Gear Enhancements & Innovative Technology (FORGE-IT)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.
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
- $358K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Armed Services, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Armed Services
- 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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
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. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.
- 1 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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.