Special NoticePosted Aug 1, 2026·Responses due Sep 1, 2026

Community Announcement: Release Status of an Earth Venture Orbital Solicitation

NASA · NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
54171
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
NNH26ZDA005L
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
AR11
Place
Not stated
Contact
Michael Kaszyca (michael.kaszyca@nasa.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation NNH26ZDA005L in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 1, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
  • Aug 1, 2026
    Special Notice
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 18, 2026 to Mar 6, 2027, middle of the range Dec 6, 2026.
Measured from 23 past early notices at National Aeronautics and Space Administration that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 1, 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

NASA is releasing a Community Announcement (CA) as an advanced notice of NASA�s intention to solicit Earth Venture (EV) investigations. This will be the first solicitation in the Earth Venture Orbital (EVO) series and will be soliciting innovative, Principal Investigator (PI)-led, cost-capped investigations for operations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). On or after the publication date of this www.SAM.gov special notice, the full text for this CA will be available for download from the EVO-1 Acquisition Homepage listed under the links. The full text of the CA is also provided as the attached PDF fil… (show all)

e entitled �CA_EVO-1_FullText�. The attached PDF file entitled �1st_CA_Email_EVO� is a copy of the text of an email the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) sent to Science Mission Directorate (SMD) List Serv subscribers. Please send any questions or comments with a subject line �EVO-1 CA� to the listed point(s) of contact.

Who won similar work

29 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (NASA), same industry group (NAICS 5417).

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc.2$3.6MJul 7, 2025
ASCEND AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGY, LLC1$1.8BSep 10, 2025
BASTION TECHNOIOGIES INC1$488.0MDec 16, 2025
BARRIOS TECHNOLOGY, LLC1$450.5MAug 14, 2025
ARES TECHNICAL SERVICES CORPORATION1$400.0MAug 7, 2026
SIERRA LOBO INC1$266.0MApr 24, 2026
TROY SIERRA JV LLC1$220.5MSep 30, 2025
New Rights Group, Inc.1$75.9MMay 4, 2026
MILLENNIUM ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION SERVICES, LLC1$58.6MApr 6, 2026
University of Wisconsin System Madison WI 53715 USA1$24.0MSep 8, 2025

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.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) 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
  • 16 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.

  • 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.