Pre-solicitationPosted Aug 18, 2026·Responses due Sep 18, 2026

RWP Independent Air Supply

Air Force and Space Force · FA9101 AEDC PKP PROCRMNT BR

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541330
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
FA9101269IAS
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
4310
Place
0, TN, USA
Contact
Haley Smith (haley.smith.10@us.af.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation FA9101269IAS in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 18, 2026 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
  • Sep 8, 2026
    Pre-solicitation
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 13, 2026 to Feb 13, 2027, middle of the range Nov 24, 2026.
Measured from 253 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 18, 2026).

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

Request for White Papers Project Title: Independent Air Supply Authority: 10 U.S.C. � 4022 Primary NAICS Code: 541330 � Engineering Services (Military and Aerospace Equipment) Primary PSC Code: 4310 � Compressors and Vacuum Pumps Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) at Arnold AFB, TN, is issuing this Request for Whitepapers (RWP) through the AEDC Velocity Alliance Consortium and SAM.gov. The strategic objective of this project is to establish an independent, secondary, and dedicated conditioned air supply to an existing test cell. The scope of this project encompasses all design, anal… (show all)

ysis, procurement, documentation, fabrication, installation, inspection, demonstration, and testing necessary to provide a complete and functional pressure and temperature-controlled air supply to the test cell. The Government reserves the right to award up to two prototype agreements for the initial proof of concept milestones (1-3). Note to interested parties: Some documents in this posting are labeled Distribution D and export controlled. For access to these requirements, contact the Contracting/Agreements Officer with your company's CAGE. Once Joint Certification Program and CMMC status are verified, the documents will be sent via DoD SAFE.

Who won similar work

56 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Air Force and Space Force), same NAICS 541330.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION · $NOC5$362.3MSep 28, 2026
SYSTEM HIGH CORPORATION5$1.1MJul 1, 2026
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION · $LMT3$37.6MAug 26, 2026
BAE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS & SERVICES INC.2$1.2BSep 21, 2026
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.2$102.1MFeb 25, 2026
L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P.2$48.5MMar 30, 2026
PCI AVIATION LLC2$14.3MApr 24, 2025
JACOBS TECHNOLOGY INC.1$4.0BJun 3, 2025
LEIDOS, INC.1$475.0MMay 29, 2026
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC1$81.5MMar 31, 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.

  • 2 of these past winners lobbied Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (22 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of job
  • $759K 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
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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.

  • 8 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.

  • 2 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 2 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.