CAPACITY ON A UHF-CAPABLE ON-ORBIT MEO SATELLITE

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CAPACITY ON A UHF-CAPABLE ON-ORBIT MEO SATELLITE

Dept of Defense, Fa9453 Afrl Rvk, RFI-RJZX-2026-RAPID

This Request for Information (RFI) is focused on obtaining access to bandwidth carried by a commercially owned, commercially operated UHF-capable on-orbit MEO satellite for use in a near-term experimental campaign to: Characterize s

SAM.gov holds the attachments, amendments, and the response instructions. Bids go there.

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Posted by FA9453 AFRL RVK, the same office that posted this notice.

Closes	Solicitation	Number
Aug 10, 2026	CAPACITY ON A UHF-CAPABLE ON-ORBIT MEO SATELLITE	RFI-RJZX-2026-RAPID
Aug 10, 2026	CAPACITY ON A UHF-CAPABLE ON-ORBIT MEO SATELLITE	RFI-RJZX-2026-RAPID
Aug 13, 2026	FA9453-21-S-0001-Call016 - Space Strategic Technology Institute (SSTI) -…	SSTI5_Call016
Aug 13, 2026	FA9453-21-S-0001-Call016 - Space Strategic Technology Institute (SSTI) -…	SSTI5_Call016
Oct 12, 2026	STAR-FISH CALL 017 - Secure By Design	FA945326XA001
Dec 18, 2028	Space Environment Technologies and Science (SETS) Broad Agency Announcement…	FA9453-23-R-X001

What this buyer has signed $6.5B

The largest federal awards in our record from DEPT OF DEFENSE, under the space and missile manufacturing codes we collect. This is context about the buyer, not the outcome of this notice: no award in the record references a solicitation number, so which notice produced which award is not something we can show.

Recipient	Amount	Signed	What for
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION	$4.8B	Apr 9, 2026	EXECUTE PHASED ARRAY TRACKING RADAR TO INTERCEPT ON…
DYNETICS, INC.	$617M	Apr 14, 2026	DO FOR THE FY26 PRODUCTION BUY.
RAYTHEON COMPANY	$500M	May 26, 2026	KUWAIT NASAMS 7 LOT PROCUREMENT
RAYTHEON COMPANY	$198M	Apr 17, 2026	SM-3 BLOCK IIA UNDER LAYER.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS…	$127M	Mar 26, 2026	FRP-18 GQM-163A BASE TARGET VEHICLE USN
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS…	$102M	May 14, 2026	SATCOM SPACE VEHICLE
INTELSAT GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS…	$75M	May 22, 2026	SEE SECTION B.
VIASAT INC	$75M	May 22, 2026	PTS-G SWARM 1 DESIGN, DEVELOP, TEST, AND PRODUCE GLOBAL…

Suppliers who do this kind of work 25

Companies in our directory under Spacecraft & buses and Components & subsystems, which is where this notice matched: kw satellite. A category is our own grouping, so this says what a company sells rather than that it is eligible or interested.

The supplier index holds 16 more in these categories.