Pre-solicitationPosted Aug 12, 2026·Responses due Aug 27, 2026

SOLE SOURCE: Integration of MPAS atmospheric dynamical core within the existing PyTorch framework for the NWS Office of Modeling and Development in Silver Spring, MD.

NOAA · DEPT OF COMMERCE NOAA

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
518210
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
142085-26-0014
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
7A20
Place
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Contact
Not stated
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 142085-26-0014 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 12, 2026 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 24, 2026 to Dec 20, 2026, middle of the range Nov 3, 2026.
Measured from 49 past early notices at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 12, 2026).

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.

Who won similar work

11 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (DEPT OF COMMERCE NOAA), same NAICS 518210.

Single-winner award sizes (11): middle half $2.5M to $7.6M, median $2.7M; range $488K to $1.1B.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
ARINC INCORPORATED2$11.7MFeb 27, 2025
ORBITAL MICRO SYSTEMS, INC.2$5.4MJun 18, 2026
MUON SPACE INC2$5.0MJul 31, 2026
KBR WYLE SERVICES, LLC · $KBR · $7.0B1$1.1BJun 11, 2026
SLINGSHOT AEROSPACE INC1$13.3MNov 26, 2024
THE TOMORROW COMPANIES INC.1$7.3MJun 18, 2026
SPIRE GLOBAL SUBSIDIARY, INC.1$2.6MSep 3, 2025
COPIAL BUSINESS STRATEGISTS, LLC1$488KMay 29, 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
  • $KBR reported $7.0B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 11 past awards, $2.7M, 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

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 Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) since 2024 (2 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) job
  • $25K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Natural Resources, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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
  • 304 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 0 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.