Sources SoughtPosted Jun 2, 2026·Original deadline passed (Jun 8). See latest amendment for current deadline.

SENSING ELEMENT FIR

DLA Aviation · DLA AVIATION

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
334290
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
SPE4A726R0623
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
6340
Place
Not stated
Contact
Not stated
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation SPE4A726R0623 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jun 2, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
  • Jun 30, 2026
    Pre-solicitation
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
  • Sep 16, 2026
    Award Notice
    S3 AERODEFENSE LLC · $900K
    Open
Other notices
  • Sep 16, 2026
    Justification (Sole Source)
    Open

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.

Who won similar work

288 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (DLA Aviation), same NAICS 334290.

Single-winner award sizes (282): middle half $42K to $250K, median $81K; range $25K to $14.0M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
S3 AERODEFENSE LLC40$11.1MSep 1, 2026
INTEGRATED PROCUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES16$5.5M + 1 sharedOct 19, 2026
LOKOS ELECTRONICS, LLC12$2.1MNov 12, 2025
MERCURY MISSION SYSTEMS LLC10$3.5MJun 24, 2026
WESTLAND TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · $ESE · $1.3B10$1.9MJul 27, 2026
ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics, LLC9$1.4MOct 19, 2026
MARTIN MILITARY INC8$559KAug 4, 2026
PHOENIX TRADING INC.6$584KOct 14, 2026
KAMPI COMPONENTS CO INC6$578KJul 29, 2026
TRIMAN INDUSTRIES INC5$3.9MSep 24, 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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.

Investor context
  • $ESE reported $1.3B revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 282 past awards, $81K, 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.

Latest awards
  • Oct 19, 2026INTEGRATED PROCUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES$31K58--COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY MODULENo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 19, 2026LAUREL TECHNOLOGIES PARTNERSHIP$29K58--KEYBOARD,DATA ENTRYMateriality: <0.01% of $DRS revenue (Low) SEC
  • Oct 19, 2026ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics, LLC$42K58--DISPLAY UNITNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 14, 2026PHOENIX TRADING INC.$57K58--CASE,ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 13, 2026AIRTRONICS, LLC$202K58--BATTERY COMPARTMENT,NIGHT VISION VIENo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 5, 2026ALEKTRONICS INC$95K58--TRANSDUCER ASSEMBLYNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Sep 29, 2026JO-KELL INC.$100K63--HORN,SIGNALNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Sep 28, 2026PIVOTAL POWER INC$92K58--TELEPHONE,SECURE UNMateriality: <0.01% of $DRS revenue (Low) SEC
  • Sep 24, 2026TRIMAN INDUSTRIES INC$2.6M63--ALARM SET,PILOT WARNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Sep 24, 2026FLIGHTFAB, INC.$42K58--PANEL,CONTROL,ELECTRICAL-ELECTRONICNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)

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.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Defense Logistics Agency since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Defense Logistics Agency 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
  • 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.

  • 1 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, 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.