Special NoticePosted Sep 29, 2026·Responses due Oct 29, 2027

AIR CARGO DETECTION INNOVATION AND DEMONSTRATION BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT

TSA · TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
Not stated
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
70T04026BAA7573ACD
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
Not stated
Place
USA
Contact
TSA Innovation Office (TSA.Innovation@tsa.dhs.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 70T04026BAA7573ACD in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 29, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Too few past cases at this agency to estimate timing (1 found; 10 needed).

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

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), is publicizing the Air Cargo Detection Innovation and Demonstration Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to provide industry with submission requirements to help identify, assess, and demonstrate innovative air cargo detection, screening, mitigation, and resilience capabilities that may improve security effectiveness and operational efficiency across TSA-regulated, industry-operated air cargo environments. Questions: All questions related to this BAA, including content and submission process questions, shall be submitted to TSA.Innovation@tsa.dhs.go… (show all)

v no later than October 29, 2026. Submissions: The BAA will be open until October 29, 2027 with three submission windows: Window 1: 01/15/2027 Window 2: 5/15/2027 Window 3: 10/29/2027 Vendors shall submit responses by the deadlines identified above via email to TSA.Innovation@tsa.dhs.gov with subject line �Air Cargo BAA 70T04026BAA7573ACD Submission.� Additional information regarding the Air Cargo Program can be found at the links provided in this posting. Please see the attached BAA for additional information.

Who won similar work

11 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (TSA), any industry: a loose match.

Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.

Single-winner award sizes (11): middle half $129K to $18.9M, median $1.1M; range $38K to $2.6B.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Leidos, Inc · $LDOS · $15.3B2$3.3BSep 30, 2026
Rohde & Schwarz USA, Inc.1$23.3MNov 17, 2025
NORTH BELT OFFICE CENTER, LLC1$14.5MNov 25, 2025
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC · $A · $6.8B1$7.5MDec 1, 2025
GLOBAL SUPPLY MANAGEMENT INC1$1.1MSep 17, 2025
DS GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS CORP1$210KDec 1, 2025
CHARPIE CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.1$207KOct 7, 2026
TS GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS. LLC1$51KSep 5, 2025
MIKE'S ELECTRIC, INC.1$47KOct 1, 2026
DSA DETECTION LLC1$38KOct 1, 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.

Investor context
  • $LDOS reported $15.3B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 11 past awards, $1.1M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $A reported $6.8B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 11 past awards, $1.1M, 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 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) since 2024 (5 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Transportation Security Administration (TSA) job
  • $247K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Homeland Security, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • 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
  • 2 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.

  • 2 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 3 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.