The RAND Corporation National Defense Research Institute (NDRI)
Department of Defense (all) · WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES
No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation WHS-2025-1564_Award in this department, oldest first.
- Aug 20, 2026 · this noticeAward NoticeTHE RAND CORPORATION · $985.6M
Next steps for this stage
Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.
- Note the winner and the end of the period of performance for the recompete.
- Follow the agency to see the next notice for this work.
What the notice says
Research, studies, analysis, analytic models, simulations, and wargame exercises that bring together analysts, government officials, academia, and industry to address government challenges, and other technical and analytical support useful for policy and program planning and management by its sponsors.
Who won similar work
117 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Department of Defense (all)), same product/service code (PSC) AC12.
Single-winner award sizes (117): middle half $3.0M to $11.2M, median $5.7M; range $35K to $1.8B.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL Summerville SC 29486 USA | 9 | $57.4M | Jan 8, 2026 |
| RAYTHEON COMPANY · $RTX · $93.5B | 5 | $41.2M | Aug 5, 2026 |
| LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION · $LMT · $77.0B | 4 | $116.5M | Feb 23, 2026 |
| RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 4 | $30.4M | Sep 25, 2025 |
| SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC | 4 | $23.5M | Sep 29, 2025 |
| Leidos Inc · $LDOS · $17.6B | 3 | $29.2M | Jun 16, 2026 |
| SRI INTERNATIONAL Menlo Park CA 94025 USA | 3 | $16.0M | Sep 2, 2025 |
| Two Six Labs, LLC | 2 | $25.9M | Aug 11, 2025 |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | 2 | $19.4M | Jul 21, 2026 |
| SRI INTERNATIONAL | 2 | $11.6M | Mar 3, 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.
- $RTX reported $93.5B revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 117 past awards, $5.7M, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing
- $LMT reported $77.0B revenue (12 months to Jun 28, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 117 past awards, $5.7M, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing
- $LDOS reported $17.6B revenue (12 months to Jul 3, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 117 past awards, $5.7M, 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.
- Oct 6, 2026DRS NETWORK & IMAGING SYSTEMS LLC$2.2MMulti-Spectral Sensing Technologies Research and Development (MUSTER)Materiality: 0.06% of $DRS revenue (Low) SEC
- Oct 1, 2026DEFENSE ENGINEERING CORP$37.6MMulti-Spectral Sensing Technologies Research and Development (MUSTER)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Aug 5, 2026RAYTHEON COMPANY$8.0MCombat Identification Automated Target Recognition Technology (CATCH) Call 05Materiality: <0.01% of $RTX revenue (Low) SEC
- Aug 3, 2026Arete Associates Niwot CO 80503 USA$1.5MMulti-Spectral Sensing Technologies Research and Development (MUSTER)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jul 28, 2026SAAZ MICRO, INC.$1.9MMulti-Spectral Sensing Technologies Research and Development (MUSTER)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jul 28, 2026AVIATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING COMPANY$294.0MAirborne Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) SupportNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jul 21, 2026NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$14.8MCombat Identification Automated Target Recognition Technology (CATCH) Call 06Materiality: 0.03% of $NOC revenue (Low) SEC
- Jul 20, 2026RADIAL RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LTD$6.0MMulti-Spectral Sensing Technologies Research and Development (MUSTER)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jun 23, 2026NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE, INC.$1.4MIndependent Commercialization Generative OptogeneticsNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jun 23, 2026ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM Emeryville CA 94608 USA$1.2MBiosecurity Working Group Generative OptogeneticsNo 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 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.
- 2 of these past winners lobbied Defense, Dept of (DOD) or Office of the Secretary of Defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2024 (38 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Defense, Dept of (DOD) or Office of the Secretary of Defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff job
- $1.0M 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
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
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.
- 3 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 7 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 only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.