Sources Sought
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Modeling & Simulation Support
Department of Defense · Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
AI summaryThis is a sources sought notice (a Request for Information, or RFI) for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) modeling and simulation (M&S) support, listed under the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) Fires. Businesses are asked to send a capabilities statement of up to five pages for each of four major tasks. The response due date is November 15, 2026, 4:00 PM Central (5:00 PM Eastern). This is not a request for quotes. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Missile Defense Agency (MDA) who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 23, 2026. See the latest version.
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Summary of the version posted Oct 16, 2026. The notice was amended Oct 23, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov.
This is a sources sought notice (a Request for Information, or RFI) for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) modeling and simulation (M&S) support, listed under the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) Fires. Businesses are asked to send a capabilities statement of up to five pages for each of four major tasks. The response due date is November 15, 2026, 4:00 PM Central (5:00 PM Eastern). This is not a request for quotes.
How to submit: Email to jonathan.w.dickens.civ@army.mil and sean.c.allan.civ@mail.mil, with the subject "RFI: THAAD Modeling and Simulation Support". What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
- Worth checking: Four major tasks are not listed. The notice asks for five pages per each of four major tasks "as described above", but the text does not list four separate tasks. Ask the contacts how they are split.
- Minor: Information request only, not a solicitation. Responses help the Government find sources. The notice says it is not a request for quotes, and the Government may decide not to compete the work.
- Minor: No acknowledgment and no phone questions. The program office will not confirm that it received your response, and phone inquiries are not considered.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Specialized engineering, modeling, simulation and software support for the THAAD Project Office
- Support development, integration and testing of the THAAD M&S products
- Deliver software products: incremental development releases, Engineering Releases and Final Releases
- Deliver updated software documentation, including red-lined (marked-up) documents
- Support integration of software into the THAAD M&S products, including on-site support as needed
- Help resolve observations found in the THAAD M&S products during development, integration and ongoing system testing
- Place of performance
- Redstone Arsenal, AL, USA (as shown in the SAM.gov fields); on-site support as needed
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 15, 2026, 4:00 PM Central (5:00 PM Eastern) (from the version posted Oct 16, 2026; amended since)
- How to submit
- Email to jonathan.w.dickens.civ@army.mil and sean.c.allan.civ@mail.mil, with the subject "RFI: THAAD Modeling and Simulation Support"
- Page limits
- Capabilities Statement: up to 5 pages for each of the 4 major tasks
What to include when you submit
- Send a Capabilities Statement of up to five pages for each of the four major tasks
- Include company name, address, point of contact, phone number, fax numbers, email address, DUNS Number (an older company ID) and CAGE Code (a company identifier for federal buyers)
- State your business size and classification (Large, Small, 8(a), Woman-Owned/Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned, HUBZone, Veteran-Owned, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned)
- Attach only MS Word, Excel or Adobe Acrobat PDF files
Not in the notice text
- The list of the four major tasks is not in the text
- Contract type, period of performance, size and estimated value are not stated
- Whether a set-aside is planned is not stated; SAM.gov shows no set-aside used
- The notice says it is issued by the Department of the Army for PAE Fires, while SAM.gov lists the Missile Defense Agency as the agency; the notice does not explain the difference
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside. Any business can reply: this is market research, and no bid is being taken yet.
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 16, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Huntsville, AL
- Product/service code
- J014 · Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment – Guided Missiles
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 541330)
- Versions
3 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 23, 2026 · Amendment 0002Due Nov 15, 2026
- Oct 20, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Nov 15, 2026
- Oct 16, 2026 · Sources Sought (this version)Due Nov 15, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
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Full notice text from SAM.gov
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