Presolicitation
Kaiju
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Air Force · Sol. FA8650-22-S-1004
Due in 217 days
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The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, has posted Kaiju, a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for research and development. It is an umbrella announcement: no white papers or proposals are requested now, and separate Calls will be issued later asking for them. The notice text does not say how long the BAA runs or what any award will be worth.
Watch out for
- DD2345 certification required. The DD2345 is a government approval to receive export-controlled military technical data, and getting it takes time, so a company without one cannot take part yet.
Additionally, vendors must have an active DD2345.
- Key document is controlled and access-restricted. The Statement of Objectives is Controlled Unclassified Information, so you cannot judge the work until access is granted.
Attachment 6 - Kaiju Statement of Objectives (SOO) can be obtained by requesting access under Attachments/Links
- No work or funding is offered yet. This is only a BAA that frames future Calls, so there is nothing to bid on until a Call appears.
This announcement does not request any white papers or proposals.
Read from the notice text only.
Full brief
What they want
- Monitor SAM.gov for future Kaiju Call opportunities, which will request white papers and/or proposals
- Request access to Attachment 6, the Kaiju Statement of Objectives (SOO), which is Controlled Unclassified Information
- Hold an active DD2345 (a military critical technical data certification) to take part
- Contract type
- Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) with Calls; awards come from later Calls
- Place of performance
- Wright Patterson AFB, OH, USA
- Offers due
- Response deadline field shows 2027-05-12T17:00:00-04:00; the text says no white papers or proposals are requested under this announcement itself
What to include when you submit
- Do not submit anything yet: Calls will be issued later requesting white papers and/or proposals
- Request access to the SOO under Attachments/Links on SAM.gov, or contact the listed points of contact if you have no active SAM.gov account
You must have
- Active DD2345 (Militarily Critical Technical Data Agreement) on file
vendors must have an active DD2345
- Active SAM.gov account to request access to the controlled Statement of Objectives
if you have an active SAM.gov account
Not in the notice text
- What the Kaiju research topics are (the Statement of Objectives is restricted)
- How big the awards will be and how long the BAA stays open
- How proposals will be evaluated
- When Calls will be issued and how to submit
- Whether there are size or ownership limits on who can respond
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Key facts
- Response due
- May 12, 2027, 9:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Apr 15, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Solicitation
- FA8650-22-S-1004
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Air Force
- Office
- FA2377 Usaf AFMC Afrl PZL Afrl Ryks
- NAICS
- 541715
- Product/service code
- AC12
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research
- Place of performance
- Wright Patterson Afb, OH, 45433
- Contracting contact
- Gabriel Bernergabriel.berner@us.af.mil3856332263
- Versions
- 17 (amended since first posted)
Full notice text from SAM.gov
. UPDATE as of 04 April 2025: This is Amendment 06 to remove all references to the Model Contract and Section K in this announcement as these documents will be provided with each individual RFP along with removing the Pre-Award Clearance section. Kaiju is a Broad Agency Annoucment (BAA) with Calls. This announcement does not request any white papers or proposals. Calls will be issued against the Kaiju BAA requesting white papers and/or proposals at later dates. Continue to monitor SAM.gov for furture Call Opportunities. Please Note: Due to the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) nature, Attachment 6 - Kaiju Statement of Objectives (SOO) can be obtained by requesting access under Attachments/Links, if you have an active SAM.gov account. If you do not have an active SAM.gov account and are unable to request access, please contact the POCs listed in this solicitation. Additionally, vendors must have an active DD2345. UPDATE as of 04 April 2025: This is Amendment 05 clarifies attachment titles and reorders them for improved organization. It also adds the S&T protection formally into an amendment, previously omitted on 13 January 2025. UPDATE as of 13 January 2025: This ammendment is to update the S&T Protection language UPDATE as of 24 June 2024: Amendment 04 updates the contracting POCs. UPDATE as of 20 June 2023: Amendment 03 incorporates clause FAR 52.204-27, Prohibitation on a ByteDance Covered Application. UPDATE as of 25 May 2023: Amendment 02 conducts the annual review of the Kaiju BAA. The following is amended: Contracting POCs, Language is added to Kaiju Solicitation, Attachments 1, 2, 5 and 7 are amended/re-uploaded based on annual review. UPDATE as of 26 May 2022: Amendment 01 amends the Statement of Objectives (Attachment 6) to correct the CUI classification to FEDCON.
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