Sources SoughtPosted Sep 9, 2026·Responses due Sep 18, 2026

Bridge Action for: FA4890-21-C-0001, RC-135 Contract Aircrew and Courseware Development Training and Courseware Development (CAT/CWD)

Air Force and Space Force · FA4890 HQ ACC AMIC

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
611512
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
FA4890-21-C-0001
Set-aside
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Set-Aside (FAR 19.14)
PSC
U009
Place
Bellevue, NE, USA
Contact
Christopher Richards (CHRISTOPHER.RICHARDS.18@US.AF.MIL)
…Open on SAM.gov
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation FA4890-21-C-0001 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 9, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 4, 2026 to Mar 7, 2027, middle of the range Dec 16, 2026.
Measured from 253 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 9, 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

Furnish all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and all other items and services required to perform and support RC-135 Contract Aircrew Training (CAT) and Courseware Development (CWD).

Who won similar work

3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (FA4890 HQ ACC AMIC), same product/service code (PSC) U009 and NAICS 611512.

Single-winner award sizes (3): middle half $47.9M to $75.3M, median $65.9M; range $30.0M to $84.6M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
MilTrain JV II LLC1$84.6MJan 15, 2026
AVIX-BGI TECHNICAL SERVICES JV LLC1$65.9MJun 26, 2025
KWAAN TECH, LLC1$30.0MSep 9, 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.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 3 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 Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of 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.

  • 0 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 only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.