Sources Sought
Advanced Information Warfare Antennas (AIWA) Request for Information (RFI)
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Navy · Sol. HQCA2026A083
Due in 41 days
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The Navy's NAVWAR command is running market research (not a bid request) to find manufacturers who could build four types of antennas in full-rate production. The work would be build-to-print, meaning the Government supplies the finished drawings and the contractor just makes the product. No place of performance or contract length is given.
Watch out for
- Technical data package not finished. The drawings you would build from are still being developed, so the final requirements could change.
NOTE: The design and development of the TDP is currently in process.
- Market research only. A response to an RFI does not secure a contract and may not lead to a solicitation.
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Full brief
What they want
- Show your capability to manufacture the V/UHF Tx Array antenna in full-rate production
- Show your capability to manufacture the High Frequency Direction Finding (HFDF) antenna
- Show your capability to manufacture the NewGRAD acquisition antenna
- Show your capability to manufacture the Next Generation AS-4683 antenna
- Describe your manufacturing capabilities, quality control and production capacity
- Optionally recommend a partial or full solution covering any or all of the four antennas
- Offers due
- 2026-11-16T16:00:00-08:00
What to include when you submit
- You do not have to respond on all four antenna systems; you may respond on any or all of them
- Focus the response on manufacturing capability, quality control and production capacity, not engineering design
Not in the notice text
- How and where to send the RFI response
- Required response format or page limits
- Contract type, quantities, value and period of performance
- Place of performance
- Whether a later solicitation will be set aside for small business
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Key facts
- Response due
- Nov 17, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
- Posted
- Oct 1, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Solicitation
- HQCA2026A083
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Navy
- Office
- Naval Information Warfare Systems
- NAICS
- 334511
- Product/service code
- 5810
- Business type
- Electrical & electronic components
- Place of performance
- 92110
- Contracting contact
- Chris Auenchristopher.d.auen.civ@us.navy.mil(619) 705-7911
- Versions
- 2 (amended since first posted)
Full notice text from SAM.gov
The Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR), in support of the Portfolio Acquisition Executive Mission Systems (PAE MS) AIWA program, is issuing this RFI to conduct market research. The Government is seeking to assess industrys current and projected capabilities to support Full Rate Production (FRP) of the newly designed Very/Ultra High Frequency Transmit Array (V/UHF Tx Array) antenna, High Frequency Direction Finding (HFDF) antenna, New Graywing Antenna Development (NewGRAD) acquisition antenna, and Next Generation AS-4683 Antenna. The primary objective of this RFI is to identify qualified manufacturing sources for a build-to-print production effort. For the purposes of this RFI, industry shall assume the Government will provide a complete Level 3 Product level Technical Data Package (TDP). NOTE: The design and development of the TDP is currently in process. Responses should focus on manufacturing capabilities, quality control, and production capacity rather than engineering design expertise.Respondents are encouraged to provide recommendations related to the delivery of a partial or full solution, covering any or all of the antenna systems described herein for which they have expertise. You are not required to respond to all four antenna systems to submit a compliant RFI response.
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