Rocket Assisted Take Off (RATO) motors and initiators for the BQM-167A Aerial Target Drone
Air Force and Space Force · FA8213 AFLCMC EBHK
Air Force and Space Force is planning to buy "Rocket Assisted Take Off (RATO) motors and initiators for the BQM-167A Aerial Target Drone". This is an early notice: it is not taking bids yet. The original due date (Oct 25, 2024) has passed; check the latest amendment for the current one. In the last 2 years, similar work went to 3 companies, usually for about $590K per award. An award could come any day: the usual time to award has passed.
Put together from the facts on this page; the details and sources are below.
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation FA821324RB011 in this department, oldest first.
Next steps for this stage
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- 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 Acquisition is to establish a five (5) - year indefinate delivery -indefinate quantity (IDIQ) firm-fixed price (FFP) contract. the United States Government (USG) intends to procure Rocket Assisted Take-Off (RATO) rocket motors and initiators. These rockets are used to launch a remotely piloted target drone called the BQM-167 aerial target drone. A draft copy of the solicitation, including proposed clauses and attachments are attached below. The USG reserves the right to not award a contract in response to this draft solicitation. Interested parties with questions may reach out to the Prim… (show all)
ary Contracting Officer listed below. The JQR documents describing the required process needed to become qualified (as a requirement to be considered a technically acceptable source) are listed in the attachments below.
Who won similar work
3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Air Force and Space Force), same NAICS 336415.
Single-winner award sizes (3): middle half $334K to $24.3M, median $590K; range $79K to $48.0M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANADIAN COMMERCIAL CORPORATION | 1 | $48.0M | Sep 17, 2025 |
| UNITED DYNAMICS, INC | 1 | $590K | Nov 10, 2025 |
| HYDRO-AIRE AEROSPACE CORP. · $CR · $2.3B | 1 | $79K | Jul 30, 2026 |
Value counts new single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling (same contract, or the same office, day and amount); that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Contract modifications are not new awards and are not added in either. Notices whose amount is a placeholder such as $999,999,999 are not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.
- $CR reported $2.3B revenue (fiscal year ending Dec 31, 2025). The median single-winner award in these 3 past awards, $590K, 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.
- Jul 30, 2026HYDRO-AIRE AEROSPACE CORP.$79KF107 Lube and Scavenge Pump RepairMateriality: <0.01% of $CR revenue (Low) SEC
- Nov 10, 2025UNITED DYNAMICS, INC$590KF107 Fuel Shut Off Valve RepairNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 17, 2025CANADIAN COMMERCIAL CORPORATION$48.0MRATO (Rocket Assisted Take Off) Motor and InitiatorNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
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 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
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
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 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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, including the subsidiaries a company lists in its SEC filings. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.