Sources Sought
Meadowlands Sustainment
Department of Defense · Department of the Air Force
AI summarySpace Systems Command at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, wants capability statements from firms able to sustain the Counter Communications System (CCS) Meadowlands, a transportable ground-based system built to deny, disrupt and degrade enemy satellite communications. This is a sources sought notice for market research, not a request for offers. The response due date is November 18, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific. The Government envisions about 6 years of work (1 base year plus 5 option years) for up to 56 systems worldwide. More in the summary
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Space Systems Command at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, wants capability statements from firms able to sustain the Counter Communications System (CCS) Meadowlands, a transportable ground-based system built to deny, disrupt and degrade enemy satellite communications. This is a sources sought notice for market research, not a request for offers. The response due date is November 18, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific. The Government envisions about 6 years of work (1 base year plus 5 option years) for up to 56 systems worldwide.
Who can bid
- Ability to perform work at the anticipated security levels (CUI, Secret, TS/SCI and SAP F), including any facility accreditation, personnel clearances and information-system authorization
- Experience sustaining electromagnetic warfare systems as a prime contractor
How to submit: Email to all listed points of contact: lakisha.porter@spaceforce.mil (Contracting Officer), brandon.goulet@spaceforce.mil, eric.honeyman@spaceforce.mil (Program Managers) and ervinado.whittaker.2@spaceforce.mil (Contracting Officer Representative). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (6)
From the version posted Oct 15, 2026.
- Serious: Classified work up to TS/SCI and SAP. The future work needs cleared people and accredited facilities. The Government plans 15% TS/SCI (top secret, sensitive compartmented information) and 5% special access program (SAP F) work, which most small firms cannot show quickly.
- Worth checking: Worldwide field support. Systems will be deployed in several combatant command areas, and the contractor must be able to support more. This needs field service staff and spares positioned around the world.
- Worth checking: Proprietary photonics system. The frequency conversion system uses a proprietary photonics system. Sustaining it may depend on technical data or parts held by another company.
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- Worth checking: Incentive fees may be paid late. Weapon System Sustainment funds must be obligated by September 30 each year, so incentive fees earned after that may wait for the next fiscal year's funding.
- Minor: Set-aside not decided. SAM.gov shows no set-aside, but the Government may set the work aside for small business, including 8(a) and woman-owned firms, after this market research.
- Minor: Outside companies may read responses. Six named companies, including SAIC, may review submitted responses under non-disclosure agreements, so mark proprietary content clearly.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. Show which files.
- Request for Information Meadowlands Sustainment FINAL.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Sustain, maintain and deliver capabilities for the CCS Meadowlands system: all technical, logistical, software and hardware effort
- Support a sustainment contract for the Meadowlands fleet, currently anticipated at up to 56 systems spread around the world (the fleet itself is described as at least 32 systems)
- Field service, reach-back engineering, technical-order and maintenance-data management, and transportation and repair-cycle management in several combatant command areas
- Software sustainment, cybersecurity fixes, configuration control and authorization-to-operate (ATO) paperwork across the fleet
- Spares, obsolescence and supply-chain risk management, including the proprietary photonics-based Frequency Conversion System
- Support for Foreign Military Sales (FMS): export-control compliance, training and technical publications
- Work at several security levels, planned as 65% controlled unclassified information (CUI), 15% Secret, 15% TS/SCI and 5% SAP F
- A transition-in plan from award to full sustainment responsibility, plus surge staffing for deployments and exercises
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work costs) with possible performance incentives is being considered; this notice is market research only
- Period of performance
- About 6 years: 1 base year plus 5 option years (envisioned). The start date is not set.
- Place of performance
- SAM.gov lists El Segundo, CA. The document says the place of performance is flexible, and systems are dispersed throughout the world.
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 18, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific
- How to submit
- Email to all listed points of contact: lakisha.porter@spaceforce.mil (Contracting Officer), brandon.goulet@spaceforce.mil, eric.honeyman@spaceforce.mil (Program Managers) and ervinado.whittaker.2@spaceforce.mil (Contracting Officer Representative)
- Page limits
- Whole response: 20 pages maximum. Cover page: 1 page. Table of contents: 1 page. Company information, capabilities and experience: 2 pages. Answers to technical and contractual/business questions: 16 pages.
What to include when you submit
- Send a Statement of Capability (SOC) as a narrative report in MS Word or PDF: Times New Roman 12 point, single-spaced, 1-inch margins
- Include a cover page, table of contents, company information and corporate capabilities and experience, then answers to the technical and contractual/business questions
- Company information: name, ownership, business size classification, mailing address, and a point of contact with email and telephone
- Describe past work relevant to sustaining electromagnetic warfare systems and in the role of a Prime Contractor
- Answer 11 technical questions (sustainment approach, maintenance strategy, teaming, supply and obsolescence, software and cybersecurity, technical data, transition, workforce, secure facilities, FMS, strengths) and 3 contractual/business questions (pricing structure, baseline data)
- Identify key assumptions, dependencies, risks and Government-furnished items, and support approaches with numbers from comparable work where possible
- Clearly mark any confidential or proprietary information; unmarked information is not protected
- A SOC classified at the SAP level must be coordinated no later than one week before it is submitted
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. The questions ask what would be needed "from the incumbent or another third party" and refer to incumbent support during transition, so a current provider appears to exist.
Not in the notice text
- The contract start date is not set; the Government is still working out the details
- No Government estimate, number of awards or contract value is given
- The size of the fleet is described as at least 32 systems and as up to 56 systems for sustainment
- Current failure rates, operating tempo, system condition and spares data needed to price a fixed-price baseline are not provided
- Which technical data, source code and licenses are available to bidders is not stated
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 15, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- FA8819 SDA and Combat Power SZK-La, El Segundo, CA
- Product/service code
- J010 · Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment – Weapons
- Business type
- IT, software & telecom (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 517410)
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
Terms on this notice: Sources sought notice
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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