Requesting infomation for MISHAP ANALYSIS & ANIMATION FACILITY (MAAF) FLIGHT RECORDER DOWNLOAD SOLUTIONS ACQUISITION AND SUSTAINMENT
Air Force and Space Force · FA9401 377 MSG PK
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation FA940126Mishap in this department, oldest first.
- Sep 28, 2026 · this noticeSources Sought
- Sep 28, 2026Sources SoughtOpen
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 contractor shall provide engineering, acquisition, and sustainment services to develop, maintain, and sustain modern hardware+software solutions for USAF aircraft flight recorder download and data decompression / transcription. This effort encompasses developing download capabilities for both full-up (undamaged) flight recorders and bench-level extracted Circuit Card Assemblies (CCA) across diverse solid-state recorder architectures. All software and hardware interfaces developed must execute on modern computer hardware and operating systems (e.g., Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Microsoft Win… (show all)
dows) and yield output file formats fully compatible with Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) data decompression and transcription software tools.
Who won similar work
32 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Air Force and Space Force), same NAICS 541511.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION · $NOC | 2 | $1.6B | Jan 16, 2025 |
| CURTISS-WRIGHT DS, INC. | 2 | $355K | Apr 23, 2026 |
| ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC · $ACN | 1 | $336.8M | Mar 25, 2025 |
| DATAMINR, INC. | 1 | $317.8M | Aug 27, 2026 |
| BLUE YONDER DEFENSE SOLUTIONS, LLC | 1 | $62.2M | Apr 24, 2026 |
| DEFINITIVE LOGIC CORPORATION | 1 | $21.2M | Feb 4, 2025 |
| INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS, INC | 1 | $12.3M | May 20, 2026 |
| ROBBINS-GIOIA, LLC | 1 | $8.8M | Aug 29, 2025 |
| RAFT LLC | 1 | $6.8M | Oct 31, 2024 |
| METRONOME, LLC | 1 | $6.6M | Nov 15, 2024 |
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.
- Oct 1, 2026HSQ TECH, INC.$428KSupervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System Maintenance
- Oct 1, 2026TRACORP, INC.$1.2MWeb-Based Training
- Aug 27, 2026DATAMINR, INC.$317.8MRequest For Proposals: HAF/A2 Publicly Available Information (PAI) Alerting Services for Department of War (DoW) Enterprise Licensing
- May 20, 2026INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS, INC$12.3MSole Source bridge contract to provide support for the Reliability and Maintainability Information System (REMIS).
- May 20, 2026SYSTEMS ATLANTA INC$3.1MAirfield Automated System (AFAS) Technical Support Services
- May 15, 2026GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE LLC$27KGreen Hill Software Support
- Apr 24, 2026BLUE YONDER DEFENSE SOLUTIONS, LLC$62.2MFLITE II Follow-On Contract Award Notification
- Apr 23, 2026CURTISS-WRIGHT DS, INC.$80KBOSS HW/SW MX Renewal
- Mar 26, 2026CVT Innovations LLC$4.3MAward Synopsis: Command Human Resources Intelligence System (CHRIS) Support Services
- Feb 6, 2026Curtiss-Wright DS, Inc.$276KBOSS Saudi PTI 25047
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 Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (14 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of job
- $448K 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
- 1 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.
- 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
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 4 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 only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.