Special NoticePosted Oct 7, 2026·Responses due Oct 22, 2026

Custom Integrated Robotic System

Department of Defense (all) · DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
334511
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
PWS-RD-TS-TSE
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
AC32
Place
Not stated
Contact
Nanette ROGERS-VIGIL (nanette.r.rogers-vigil.civ@mail.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation PWS-RD-TS-TSE in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Oct 7, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Too few past cases at this agency to estimate timing (5 found; 10 needed).

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

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source Contract: The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), DTRA West Contracting (J4-CRW), Kirtland AFB, NM, intends to award a firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract to Rocky Mountain Unmanned Systems (RMUS) LLC, 1256 W 50 S, Centerville, UT 84014, for the procurement of a Custom-Integrated Robotic System. Requirement Description: The requirement is for an applied research and development R and D effort to design, engineer, integrate, and deliver one (1) functional prototype robotic system. The system must be capable of autonomously navigating hazardous envi… (show all)

ronments and creating a real-time, three-dimensional (3D) Hazardous Atmosphere Map. The core of the requirement is a complex software and systems integration task. The contractor must successfully fuse data from a Government-Furnished multi-gas chemical detector with data streams from a contractor-provided commercial quadrupedal robotic platform, a survey-grade 3D LiDAR sensor, and a tactical mesh networking radio into a single, unified operational picture for the user. Statutory Authority: This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 3204(a)(1)as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements. Rationale for Sole Source: Market research has concluded that RMUS is the only responsible source capable of providing this system without unacceptable risk and schedule delays to the Government. While the hardware components are commercial-off-the-shelf, the unique requirement is the software data-fusion architecture needed to integrate them. RMUS is the sole identified vendor that possesses the pre-existing, proprietary software framework and demonstrated experience required to fuse the specific data streams from these disparate systems into the required 3D hazardous atmosphere map. No other source has demonstrated this unique, pre-existing software capability. The Government does not own a technical data package suitable for competition. Submission of Capability Statements: This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. Interested parties must provide clear and convincing evidence that they possess the demonstrated, pre-existing software data-fusion capability to meet the specific requirements described herein. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Please submit any capability statements by email to the points of contact listed below no later than the response date of this notice.

Who won similar work

5 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY), same product/service code (PSC) AC32.

Single-winner award sizes (5): middle half $4.0M to $9.5M, median $8.0M; range $2.5M to $11.6M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Applied Research Associates, Inc.2$10.4MSep 30, 2025
AERIS LLC1$11.6MOct 2, 2025
NETRIAS, LLC1$9.5MJun 3, 2026
TULANE UNIVERSITY New Orleans LA 70118 USA1$4.0MJul 15, 2026

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Latest awards

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.

  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Defense, Dept of (DOD) or Office of the Secretary of Defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2024 (9 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.

  • 1 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.

  • 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.