Special NoticePosted Aug 3, 2026·Responses due Aug 5, 2026

Kadena AFB ATC Tower Augmentation

Air Force and Space Force · FA5270 18 CONS PK

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
488111
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
FA527026PB022
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
N099
Place
JP-47, JPN
Contact
Kathleen Kopp (kathleen.kopp@us.af.mil)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation FA527026PB022 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 3, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 28, 2026 to Jan 29, 2027, middle of the range Nov 9, 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 3, 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

The Government intents to negotiate solely with Frequentis Defense, Inc. See attachment for details.

Who won similar work

21 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Air Force and Space Force), same industry group (NAICS 4881).

Single-winner award sizes (21): middle half $335K to $6.6M, median $1.2M; range $17K to $4.3B.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
VERTEX AEROSPACE LLC2$4.7BJun 26, 2026
EMPIRE AIRCRAFT SERVICES INC2$15.2MMar 28, 2025
DLC AIRCRAFT PRESERVATION SERVICES, LLC2$209KJul 21, 2025
GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE CORPORATION · $GD · $42.3B1$937.1MNov 1, 2024
AMENTUM SERVICES, INC. · $AMTM · $7.9B1$279.8MOct 28, 2024
CHELTON AVIONICS, INC · $TDG · $6.6B1$6.6MSep 29, 2026
Optimum Clean GmbH Kempten 87435 DEU1$2.7MDec 12, 2025
SKYQUEST AVIATION LLC1$2.3MJan 21, 2025
SOLOMON ENGINEERING, INC.1$2.1MJan 15, 2026
Planeguard Ltd1$1.2MAug 17, 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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Investor context
  • $GD reported $42.3B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 21 past awards, $1.2M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $AMTM reported $7.9B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 21 past awards, $1.2M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $TDG reported $6.6B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 21 past awards, $1.2M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K

One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.

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 (11 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of job
  • $485K 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. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 3 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 5 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.