Sources SoughtPosted Sep 2, 2026·Responses due Oct 2, 2026

Enhanced Armor Inspection System (EAIS)

Navy and Marine Corps · COMMANDER

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
334517
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
M6785426I5428
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
6625
Place
VA, USA
Contact
Ebony King (ebony.king@usmc.mil)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation M6785426I5428 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 2, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 13, 2026 to Jun 14, 2027, middle of the range Feb 2, 2027.
Measured from 3964 past early notices at Dept of the Navy that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 2, 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

This is a Sources Sought Notice / Request for Information (RFI) for the Program Manager, Combat Support Systems (PM CSS), Portfolio Acquisition Executive Marine Corps (PAE MC) in Quantico, Virginia for the Enhanced Armor Inspection System (EAIS). See the attachment for additional information and deadlines.

Who won similar work

65 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Navy and Marine Corps), same product/service code (PSC) 6625.

Single-winner award sizes (65): middle half $277K to $1.0M, median $512K; range $7K to $32.6M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
TECHNICAL COMMUNITIES, INC.5$4.7MFeb 18, 2026
KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC · $KEYS · $6.6B4$5.6MOct 1, 2026
BRANDYWINE COMMUNICATIONS4$2.3MJul 2, 2026
INTEGRATED PROCUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES Vandalia OH 45377 USA2$19.4MJul 22, 2026
ORBIT ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.2$5.8MJul 31, 2025
Rohde & Schwarz USA, Inc.2$3.1MSep 24, 2026
ECI DEFENSE GROUP, INC.2$2.2MSep 27, 2025
Kerley Corporation2$1.6MJan 16, 2026
HOFFMAN ENGINEERING, LLC2$1.1MMay 20, 2026
INNOVASEA MARINE SYSTEMS CANADA INC2$86KJun 24, 2025

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.

Investor context
  • $KEYS reported $6.6B revenue (12 months to Jul 31, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 65 past awards, $512K, 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

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 Navy, Dept of or U.S. Marines since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Navy, Dept of or U.S. Marines 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 5 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.