Commercially Available Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) Power Meters
FAA · 693KA8 SYSTEM OPERATIONS CONTRACTS
FAA is planning to buy "Commercially Available Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) Power Meters". This is an early notice: it is not taking bids yet. The work is in Washington, DC, USA. Responses are due Nov 23, 2026. In the last 2 years, similar work went to 5 companies, usually for about $420K per award.
Put together from the facts on this page; the details and sources are below.
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation FAA-DME-PWRMTR-MSA2026 in this department, oldest first.
- Oct 23, 2026 · this noticeSources Sought
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
5 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (FAA), same industry group (NAICS 3345).
Single-winner award sizes (5): middle half $414K to $696K, median $420K; range $345K to $267.3M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAAB INC · $SAABF | 1 | $267.3M | Oct 1, 2025 |
| VAISALA INC. | 1 | $696K | Jun 9, 2025 |
| SRCTEC, LLC | 1 | $420K | Sep 10, 2026 |
| SUBSURFACE GEOPHYSICAL SOLUTIONS LLC | 1 | $414K | Oct 25, 2024 |
| ADB Safegate Americas LLC | 1 | $345K | Mar 5, 2025 |
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. 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.
- Sep 10, 2026SRCTEC, LLC$420KUpgrade of SR Hawk radar systemsNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 1, 2025SAAB INC$267.3MSurface Movement Radar, Model 4 , Replacement for Airport Surface Detection Equipment Model 3 Surface Movement Radar (ASDE-3 SMR)$SAABF: no recent revenue figure in SEC filings (Materiality N/A)
- Jun 9, 2025VAISALA INC.$696KVisibility SensorsNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Mar 5, 2025ADB Safegate Americas LLC$345KCONTRACT AWARD: RWSL Gen 2 ComponentsNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 25, 2024SUBSURFACE GEOPHYSICAL SOLUTIONS LLC$414K6973GH-25-C-00019 - CBP CBTT ERT #2 - AWARD NOTIFICATIONNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
Competitive landscape
For the 5 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 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) since 2024 (22 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 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.
- 8 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
- 988 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.