Sources SoughtPosted Sep 22, 2026·Original deadline passed (Oct 16). See latest amendment for current deadline.

Project FLYTRAP 6.0

Department of Defense (all) · WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
Not stated
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
WHSDIUFLYTRAP
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
Not stated
Place
Not stated
Contact
Michael John Fanizzo (michael.j.fanizzo.civ@mail.mil)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation WHSDIUFLYTRAP in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 22, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
  • Sep 22, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
  • Oct 16, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 4, 2026 to May 4, 2027, middle of the range Dec 17, 2026.
Measured from 13 past early notices at Washington Headquarters Services (Whs) that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 22, 2026).

Next steps for this stage

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What the notice says

The United States Army invites large and small businesses from across the globe to submit an application to provide Department of War (DoW) Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (c-UAS) technologies for potential participation in Project FLYTRAP 6.0, conducted in Europe with V Corps. Project FLYTRAP is a recurring US/UK exercise uniting maneuver forces, industry, and the acquisition community to rapidly field emerging counter-UAS (cUAS) technologies and inform Army requirements. The exercise adheres to the core tenets of the FLYTRAP series: US/UK integration, maneuver formation focus, progressive di… (show all)

fficulty, robust OPFOR, data-driven assessment, and forward engineering. Project FLYTRAP 6.0 is a U.S. Army-led multinational counter-UAS experimentation exercise where roughly 1,000 soldiers will operate across 50+ square kilometers in a large-scale combat operations (LSCO) environment. Project FLYTRAP 6.0 is an operational-focused initiative designed to evaluate emerging C-UAS capabilities in a realistic environment. Selected participants may be invited to deploy their systems and provide equipment to U.S. Army units for continued operational evaluation following the event. These kits will be assessed for suitability, effectiveness, interoperability, and operational relevance in support of Army modernization and capability development efforts.

Recent Agency Awards (Loose Match)

1981 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Department of Defense (all)), any industry: a loose match.

Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.

Single-winner award sizes (1456): middle half $39K to $163K, median $66K; range $2K to $611.5M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
KAMPI COMPONENTS CO INC57$3.5M + 28 sharedOct 20, 2026
TRIMAN INDUSTRIES INC33$6.9M + 3 sharedOct 20, 2026
ECI DEFENSE GROUP, INC.29$3.2M + 3 sharedOct 20, 2026
LARKOS PACKING AND DISTRIBUTION INC.28$1.1M + 13 sharedOct 20, 2026
INTEGRATED PROCUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES26$2.6M + 3 sharedOct 20, 2026
CHAND, L.L.C.23$2.5MOct 20, 2026
PIONEER INDUSTRIES, LLC · $HEI · $5.2B21$1.8MOct 20, 2026
JA MOODY LLC18$3.0MOct 20, 2026
FBC ENTERPRISES LLC18$1.4M + 2 sharedOct 20, 2026
TRANSAERO, INC.17$4.3M + 1 sharedOct 20, 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 (1 here). 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
  • $HEI reported $5.2B revenue (12 months to Jul 31, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 1456 past awards, $66K, 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.

Latest awards

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.

  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Defense, Dept of (DOD) or Office of the Secretary of Defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2024 (5 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Defense, Dept of (DOD) or Office of the Secretary of Defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff 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. 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
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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, 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.