Special NoticePosted Oct 2, 2026·Responses due Oct 30, 2026

Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminal Increment 2, Block 2 (GASNTi2b2) Industry Day - Initial Notice

Air Force and Space Force · FA8735 NUCLEAR NTW DIV AFNWC PZHN

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541715
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
GASNTi2b2_IND_DAY_INT_NOTICE_541715
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
Not stated
Place
Hanscom AFB, MA, USA
Contact
Leslie Cooper (leslie.cooper@us.af.mil)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation GASNTi2b2_IND_DAY_INT_NOTICE_541715 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 11, 2026
    Special Notice
    Open
  • Oct 2, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 6, 2026 to Feb 6, 2027, middle of the range Nov 17, 2026.
Measured from 253 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 11, 2026).
Responses are due Oct 30, 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

UPDATE: This Industry Day that was planned for 4 November 2026 is now postponed. A new date will be announced at a later time. The attached document has been updated to reflect this change. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center�s Nuclear Networks Division plans to conduct an Industry Day in support of the Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminal Increment 2, Block 2 program, referred to as GASNTi2b2. The purpose of the event is to provide industry with a preliminary overview of the required capability to obtain feedback for market research and acquisition planning. The contemplated effort will… (show all)

involve the design, development, and integration of components to deliver a strategic ground-based High Frequency (HF) communications system. This release serves as an early planning notification; consequently, all scheduled dates and event details remain tentative. The formal, finalized announcement is projected to be published on SAM.gov in approximately October. Please see the attached document for more information.

Who won similar work

113 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Air Force and Space Force), same NAICS 541715.

Single-winner award sizes (113): middle half $2.3M to $30.5M, median $7.3M; range $35K to $33.2B.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC · $BAH · $10.7B5$46.6MSep 24, 2025
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP · $LMT · $67.6B5$40.1MJan 8, 2026
RAYTHEON COMPANY · $RTX · $68.9B4$39.5MAug 5, 2026
SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC4$18.3MSep 29, 2025
DCS Corporation3$33.3BFeb 23, 2026
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP · $SPCX3$49.4MMar 6, 2026
MODERN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC.2$33.2BMar 26, 2025
MATRIX RESEARCH INC2$109.9MJan 20, 2026
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION2$31.8MJul 21, 2026
SAAB, INC2$8.5MJul 23, 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
  • $BAH reported $10.7B revenue in FY2026. The median single-winner award in these 113 past awards, $7.3M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $LMT reported $67.6B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 113 past awards, $7.3M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $RTX reported $68.9B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 113 past awards, $7.3M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K

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.

  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (8 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of job
  • $780K 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
  • 1 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. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 4 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 6 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.