Sources Sought
Counter-Targeting Request for Information
Department of Defense · Department of the Air Force
AI summaryThe Department of the Air Force (FA8819 SDA and Combat Power SZK-LA), for the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command at Los Angeles Air Force Base, is asking for short capability statements, and optional demonstrations, on counter-targeting for space electronic warfare. This is a sources sought notice, not a solicitation. Technical details are in a classified annex sent on email request; classified responses are due November 30, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern. More in the summary
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The notice looks incomplete: The capabilities wanted, background, reference documents and the exact information to include in the statement are only in the classified annex, which was not available to read. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Department of the Air Force (FA8819 SDA and Combat Power SZK-LA), for the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command at Los Angeles Air Force Base, is asking for short capability statements, and optional demonstrations, on counter-targeting for space electronic warfare. This is a sources sought notice, not a solicitation. Technical details are in a classified annex sent on email request; classified responses are due November 30, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern.
Who can bid
- Ability to request and handle the classified annex and send a classified response; the annex is available by email request and responses go to classified email addresses.
How to submit: Classified email to the program manager, deputy program manager and contracting officer at the classified addresses listed in the RFI; ask them for the classified annex first. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Oct 21, 2026.
- Serious: Details and response need classified channels. The description, background and questions are only in a classified annex, and responses go to classified email addresses, so a business without classified-network access may be unable to respond.
- Minor: Information request only. This notice is not a solicitation and promises no future solicitation or award; responding is at your own expense.
- Minor: Responses shared with support contractors. Your response goes to the Command's support contractors unless you object in the cover letter, and all submissions become Government property.
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- Minor: Possible small business set-aside. The Government reserves the right to set the future buy aside for small businesses, including 8(a), veteran-owned or woman-owned firms; no set-aside is stated on SAM.gov.
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- Counter-Targeting Capabilities RFI_10-21-26.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Send a Statement of Capabilities (SOC) of no more than ten pages showing you can provide the counter-targeting capabilities listed in the classified annex.
- Request the classified annex by emailing the program manager and deputy program manager; copy the contracting officer when on the same classified network.
- Show you can deliver all technical, managerial and logistical work needed to implement those capabilities.
- Optionally demonstrate a hardware or software solution, in development or in use; say so in your statement.
- Place of performance
- USA (as SAM.gov gives it)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 30, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Classified email to the program manager, deputy program manager and contracting officer at the classified addresses listed in the RFI; ask them for the classified annex first
- Page limits
- Statement of Capabilities: 10 pages total; pages beyond the limit will not be considered
What to include when you submit
- Email the program manager and deputy program manager to request the classified annex, and copy the contracting officer when on the same classified network.
- Send the response in Microsoft Word 2000 (or newer), 8.5 x 11 inch pages, single spaced, 10-point Times New Roman (8-point in graphics and tables), one-inch margins.
- Format the response to match the structure of the requested information in the classified annex.
- Clearly mark all confidential or proprietary information; the Government is not responsible for unmarked proprietary information.
- If you do not agree to share your response with the Government's support contractors, say so in the cover letter.
- To demonstrate software, note it in the statement; demonstrations must be held within 2 weeks after the RFI closes.
Not in the notice text
- The capabilities wanted, background, reference documents and the exact information to include in the statement are only in the classified annex, which was not available to read.
- The kind of contract, its size, its length and the number of awards are not stated.
- The NAICS code (the industry code) and the product or service code are blank on SAM.gov, and no set-aside is stated.
- The classified email addresses for the SGN, SIC and CORE networks are not all shown in the RFI.
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 21, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- FA8819 SDA and Combat Power SZK-La, El Segundo, CA
- 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