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

Responses close Aug 10 · 20:00 UTC

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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Also open from this office 2

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

Closes	Solicitation	Number
Aug 13, 2026	FA9453-21-S-0001-Call016 - Space Strategic Technology Institute (SSTI) -…	SSTI5_Call016
Dec 18, 2028	Space Environment Technologies and Science (SETS) Broad Agency Announcement…	FA9453-23-R-X001

What this buyer has signed $5.9B

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	$198M	Apr 17, 2026	SM-3 BLOCK IIA UNDER LAYER.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS…	$118M	Mar 26, 2026	FRP-18 GQM-163A BASE TARGET VEHICLE USN
RAYTHEON COMPANY	$62M	Apr 15, 2026	ADVANCED MEDIUM-RANGE AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE (AMRAAM)…
KONGSBERG DEFENCE & AEROSPACE AS	$46M	Mar 13, 2026	THE CONTRACT PROCURES A NAVAL STRIKE MISSILE (NSM)…
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION	$41M	Apr 14, 2026	GUIDED MULTIPLE LAUNCH ROCKET SYSTEM (GMLRS) AND LOW COST…
RAYTHEON COMPANY	$20M	May 1, 2026	THIS TASK ORDER IS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ADVANCED…

Suppliers who do this kind of work 19

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 10 more in these categories.