Small Business Opportunity - Honeycomb Waveguides
NAVAIR and air warfare centers · NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation N00019-26-RFPREQ-JSFDESA-0155 in this department, oldest first.
- Sep 2, 2026 · this noticePre-solicitation
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 F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), hereby provides notice of intent to solicit services to install honeycomb waveguides and data converters in an executive office suite conference room located in Arlington, VA. This requirement includes the procurement and installation of honeycomb waveguides and data conversion for CAT6 lines traversing the shield line that must be compliant with government security standards. The anticipated period of performance will be 11 weeks. An award will be made using FAR Part 12 procedures. It is anticipated that an award will be made before November 2026. This is … (show all)
a pre-solicitation notice and does not constitute a request for quote and the government is not seeking pricing here. This procurement is expected to be below the simplified acquisition threshold, and three sources will be solicited directly (No RFQ will be published on GPE) in accordance with RFO 12.201-1(c)(2). However, interested parties can request the RFQ during the active period of this notice and any quote received responsive to the RFQ will be considered.
Who won similar work
702 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (NAVAIR and air warfare centers), any industry: a loose match.
Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAYTHEON COMPANY · $RTX | 45 | $26.1B | Oct 16, 2026 |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION · $NOC | 37 | $2.8B | Oct 9, 2026 |
| THE BOEING COMPANY · $BA | 33 | $8.8B | Oct 14, 2026 |
| LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP · $LMT | 30 | $4.2B | Oct 9, 2026 |
| BELL BOEING JOINT PROJECT OFFICE Amarillo TX 79111 USA | 23 | $572.4M | Sep 28, 2026 |
| SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION · $LMT | 20 | $11.3B | Oct 5, 2026 |
| AAR GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC. · $AIR | 12 | $1.7B | Apr 24, 2026 |
| ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC. · $RTX | 11 | $417.8M | Sep 29, 2026 |
| BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC. | 11 | $165.2M | Oct 6, 2026 |
| L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P. | 10 | $741.8M | Apr 21, 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.
- Oct 16, 2026BENCON ENTERPRISES, INC$285KPreventative Maintenance and Repairs for Water Treatment Equipment
- Oct 16, 2026BAE Systems Information and Electronics$7.0MFY2025 AN/UPX-50(C) Digital Interrogators (DI), AN/UPX-50(C)
- Oct 16, 2026RAYTHEON COMPANY$1.9MJoint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) FY26 Mission Planning
- Oct 15, 2026INSITU, INC.$676KFLARES Scan Eagle UAS Flight Testing & Environmental Shock Qualification
- Oct 15, 2026TEXTRON SYSTEMS CORPORATION$2.8MAerosonde UAS Operational Support, Transition, & MCM Sensor Integration (Modifications under BOA N0001921G0008)
- Oct 15, 2026AVIOSS LLC$1.5MMQ-4C Nitrogen Servicing Units
- Oct 14, 2026Raytheon Company$19.5MMissile Systems - Recertification Fuze Procurement
- Oct 14, 2026Raytheon Company$21.7MTomahawk Integrated Firing Unit (IFU) Mitigation
- Oct 14, 2026THE BOEING COMPANY$16.7MF/A-18E/F and EA-18G Production Line Shutdown
- Oct 13, 2026THE BOEING COMPANY$611.5MMQ-25 Stingray LRIP Lot 1 & Lot 2 AAC
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.
- 3 of these past winners lobbied Navy, Dept of or U.S. Marines since 2024 (39 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Navy, Dept of or U.S. Marines job
- $1.6M 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
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.
- 5 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 6 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.