RFP for Advanced Signatures Technologies (AST) | HillSignal — HillSignal
SolicitationPosted Oct 26, 2026·Responses due Nov 16, 2026
RFP for Advanced Signatures Technologies (AST)
NAVSEA, naval shipyards and surface/undersea warfare centers · NSWC CARDEROCK
In plain words
NAVSEA wants bids for "RFP for Advanced Signatures Technologies (AST)". Bids are due Nov 16, 2026. In the last 2 years, similar work went to 4 companies, usually for about $24.9M per award. An award is expected between November 2026 and July 2027.
Put together from the facts on this page; the details and sources are below.
Stage
Open solicitation
NAICSThe industry code for the work being bought (for example 336611 is ship building and repair). It is how agencies and companies sort work by type.
541330
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
N0016726R3104
Set-asideWhether only certain businesses may bid, such as small businesses, women-owned or veteran-owned firms. "None stated" means anyone may bid.
None stated
PSCThe product or service code: what exactly is being bought, more specific than the industry code.
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.
Who won similar work
4 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (NAVSEA, naval shipyards and surface/undersea warfare centers), same product/service code (PSC) AC13.
Single-winner award sizes (4): middle half $12.2M to $37.5M, median $24.9M; range $72K to $49.4M.
Winner
Awards
Value
Last
METRON INCORPORATED
1
$49.4M
Sep 9, 2025
SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION · $SAIC · $7.4B
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 27, 2026 to Jul 14, 2027, middle of the range Feb 6, 2027.
Measured from 37 past solicitations at Dept of the Navy with NAICS 541330 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 29, 2026).
Value counts new single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling (same contract, or the same office, day and amount); that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Contract modifications are not new awards and are not added in either. Notices whose amount is a placeholder such as $999,999,999 are not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.
Investor context
$SAIC reported $7.4B revenue (12 months to Jul 31, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 4 past awards, $24.9M, is 0.3% of that. SEC filing
$DRS reported $3.8B revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 4 past awards, $24.9M, is 0.7% of that. SEC filing
One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.
Jul 14, 2025DRS NAVAL POWER SYSTEMS INC$72KUSS Jimmy Carter Cyber SecurityMateriality: <0.01% of $DRS revenue (Low)How big this award is next to the company's revenue over the last 12 months: Low under 1%, Medium 1-5%, High 5% or more. Award amount divided by revenue from the company's SEC filings. Here: $72K award ÷ $3.8B revenue, 12 months to Jun 30, 2026 (SEC 10-Q).SEC
Apr 25, 2025SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION$33.5MEngineering support for AN-SLQ-25E systemsMateriality: 0.45% of $SAIC revenue (Low)How big this award is next to the company's revenue over the last 12 months: Low under 1%, Medium 1-5%, High 5% or more. Award amount divided by revenue from the company's SEC filings. Here: $33.5M award ÷ $7.4B revenue, 12 months to Jul 31, 2026 (SEC 10-Q).SEC
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 4 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 Navy, Dept of or U.S. Marines since 2024 (0 filings)
0 of their lobbyists list a past Navy, Dept of or U.S. Marines job
$188K 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
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
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.
2 of the past winners are listed companies
1 insider buys and 3 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, including the subsidiaries a company lists in its SEC filings. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.