RFI - DCSA Personnel Security Alert Management (PSAM) Platform
Department of Defense (all) · DEFENSE CI AND SECURITY AGENCY
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation DCSAPSAMRFI2026001 in this department, oldest first.
- Sep 14, 2026 · this noticeSources Sought
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What the notice says
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) Personnel Security Alert Management (PSAM) Platform Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) RFI Reference: DCSA-PSAM-RFI-2026-001 Response Instructions: Due Date: September 22, 2026 @ 1:00pm ET Vendors shall fill out the attached questionnaire and submit it via email to Lindsay Weindruch: lindsay.a.weindruch.civ@mail.mil Disclaimer: This RFI is for informational and planning purposes only. It is not a Request for Proposal, does not commit the Government to any award, and responses are not offers the Government can accept to form a contract. The Gove… (show all)
rnment will not pay for information submitted. Do not include classified information in responses; proprietary information will be protected to the extent permitted by law. 1. Purpose DCSA seeks information from Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and Security Operations Center (SOC) platform vendors on commercial capabilities that can support personnel-security operations through cybersecurity event correlation, alert triage, risk-based prioritization, and workflow automation. DCSA is particularly interested in solutions that can identify, correlate, prioritize, and route cybersecurity alerts and incidents associated with members of the trusted workforce for appropriate personnel-security review. 2. Problem Statement DCSA's Continuous Vetting (CV) program faces high daily detection volumes from many sources, much of it low-value noise. Alerts which are drawn from dozens of criminal, financial, terrorism-screening, foreign-contact, foreign-travel, and public-record data sources are still worked largely first-in-first-out rather than by risk, so high-consequence alerts can wait behind routine, low-risk items and case queues have grown faster than staffing. While CV has made progress in detecting potential risk indicators far faster than legacy periodic-reinvestigation models, it is still triaging risk with case-management approaches built for a lower-volume era. 3. Desired Capability DCSA seeks a solution that will incorporate the following capabilities: Ingests and normalizes 40+ structured and unstructured data sources�including APIs, databases, PDFs, and open-source information�into a unified alert stream. Correlates alerts to individual subjects using privacy-preserving tokenization, enabling cross-source analysis without unnecessary exposure of personal data. Applies explainable AI/ML risk scoring aligned with federal adjudicative guidelines�such as financial considerations, criminal conduct, and foreign influence�rather than generic threat categories. Analyst-facing outputs must provide clear rationale (for example, LIME, SHAP, or an equivalent method). Automates low-value alert handling through configurable business rules that suppress duplicates, auto-clear qualifying low-risk alerts, and reduce false positives. Routes alerts through tiered, human-in-the-loop workflows for validation, investigation, and adjudication. The system must prioritize alerts by assessed risk�not age�and immediately escalate critical or high-risk alerts. Supports continuous improvement by feeding adjudicator outcomes back into the rules engine and AI/ML models, subject to appropriate oversight and validation. Integrates with�not replaces�authoritative case-management systems of record through documented, open-standard APIs, including OpenAPI 3.1 and REST. The capability must generate upstream triage signals rather than create a parallel case-management silo. Provides leadership and operational dashboards showing key performance measures, including time to detect, time to respond, false-positive rate, and backlog by priority, with near-real-time visibility into detection, response, and workload status. Avoids vendor lock-in. Proprietary data formats or closed APIs are disqualifying. Can operate in controlled IL5 and classified IL6 environments appropriate for intelligence-derived derogatory information and consistent with Department of War cross-domain security requirements.
Recent Agency Awards (Loose Match)
1980 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 (1414): middle half $39K to $164K, median $65K; range $2K to $611.5M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAMPI COMPONENTS CO INC | 58 | $3.4M + 29 shared | Oct 20, 2026 |
| TRIMAN INDUSTRIES INC | 35 | $7.1M + 3 shared | Oct 20, 2026 |
| LARKOS PACKING AND DISTRIBUTION INC. | 29 | $1.1M + 15 shared | Oct 20, 2026 |
| INTEGRATED PROCUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES | 28 | $2.4M + 4 shared | Oct 20, 2026 |
| ECI DEFENSE GROUP, INC. | 25 | $2.9M + 4 shared | Oct 20, 2026 |
| CHAND, L.L.C. | 21 | $2.4M | Oct 20, 2026 |
| FBC ENTERPRISES LLC | 19 | $1.8M + 2 shared | Oct 20, 2026 |
| PIONEER INDUSTRIES, LLC · $HEI · $5.2B | 19 | $1.7M | Oct 20, 2026 |
| JA MOODY LLC | 18 | $3.0M | Oct 20, 2026 |
| TRANSAERO, INC. | 17 | $4.3M + 1 shared | Oct 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.
- $HEI reported $5.2B revenue (12 months to Jul 31, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 1414 past awards, $65K, 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.
- Oct 20, 2026MOJO SOLUTIONS & SERVICES MSS LLC$91KAward Notice: MGA Thomas Hall SecurityNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 20, 2026SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION$7.6MCH-53K® ALE DevelopmentMateriality: <0.01% of $LMT revenue (Low) SEC
- Oct 20, 2026DEEP MILE NETWORKS LLC$300.0M (shared ceiling)Program Executive Office (PEO) Defense Healthcare Management Systems (DHMS) Deployment SolutionsShared multiple-award ceiling, not one company's win (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 20, 2026ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC$300.0M (shared ceiling)Program Executive Office (PEO) Defense Healthcare Management Systems (DHMS) Deployment SolutionsShared multiple-award ceiling, not one company's win (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 20, 2026BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY$671KAward Notice RFQ HC102126QA093: Start a 10GB Ethernet LAN-PHY commercial circuit Intra-Europe.No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 20, 2026ZIEHM-ORTHOSCAN INC$30KOrthoscan Preventative MaintenanceNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 20, 2026GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.$300.0M (shared ceiling)Program Executive Office (PEO) Defense Healthcare Management Systems (DHMS) Deployment SolutionsShared multiple-award ceiling, not one company's win (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 20, 2026CACI, INC. - FEDERAL$300.0M (shared ceiling)Program Executive Office (PEO) Defense Healthcare Management Systems (DHMS) Deployment SolutionsShared multiple-award ceiling, not one company's win (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 20, 2026DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP$300.0M (shared ceiling)Program Executive Office (PEO) Defense Healthcare Management Systems (DHMS) Deployment SolutionsShared multiple-award ceiling, not one company's win (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 20, 2026RAYTHEON COMPANY$1.8MJoint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) United States Navy (USN) FY26 Repair of RepairablesMateriality: <0.01% of $RTX revenue (Low) 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 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
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
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
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.