Sources SoughtPosted Oct 1, 2026·Responses due Oct 21, 2026

RFI - UMTE X Band Transmitter

Air Force and Space Force · FA8210 AFLCMC WNRK HILL

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
334511
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
FA8210-26-RFI-UMTE
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
5840
Place
Hill Air Force Base, UT, USA
Contact
Heather Ball (heather.ball@us.af.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation FA8210-26-RFI-UMTE in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • May 19, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
  • Jun 24, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
  • Oct 1, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
  • Oct 1, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Jul 14, 2026 to Nov 14, 2026, middle of the range Aug 25, 2026.
Measured from 253 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from May 19, 2026).
Responses are due Oct 21, 2026, so an award before then is unlikely; past cases include short solicitations.

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

Unmanned Threat Emitter (UMTE) X Band Transmitter The Government is conducting market research to identify potential industry sources capable of providing solutions to consolidate and replace obsolete, single-function transmitter systems. Currently, the Government relies on multiple ground-based threat emitter platforms (designated TK-1, TK-2 and TK-4) which utilize legacy transmitters. See attached RFI document for more information. The drawings are CUI and require approval for access to unclassified military technical data. UPDATE 6/24/2026: Questions from Industry and Government Answers and… (show all)

Blower Drawing are included in the attachments.

Who won similar work

43 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Air Force and Space Force), same NAICS 334511.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · $NOC4$2.0BOct 5, 2026
OWT GLOBAL, LIMITED2$2.8MSep 29, 2026
DRONESHIELD LLC · $DRSHF2$340KMar 23, 2026
Symetrics Industries, LLC · $TDG1$147.3MSep 4, 2026
RAYTHEON COMPANY · $RTX1$63.0MApr 8, 2025
KIHOMAC INC1$32.4MFeb 27, 2026
Able Aerospace Services, Inc.1$16.8MSep 3, 2026
KEYSTONE MISSION SOLUTIONS CORP1$14.8MSep 17, 2025
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.1$8.9MNov 18, 2024
TELSPAN DATA, LLC1$5.0MAug 18, 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.

Latest awards

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 Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (17 filings)
  • 1 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of job
  • $827K 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
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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.

  • 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
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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.

  • 4 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 7 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.