Distributed Aperture Resilient Terminal System (DARTS)

Sources Sought Due Sep 30, 2026

Distributed Aperture Resilient Terminal System (DARTS)

Dept of Defense, W6qk Acc-Apg, W56KGU-26-R-0230

Responses close Sep 30, 21:00 UTC

Request For Information (RFI) – Distributed Aperture Resilient Terminal System (DARTS) 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 ORGANIZATION This Request for Information (RFI) is sponsored by

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

What else bears on this

Also open from this office 7

Posted by W6QK ACC-APG, the same office that posted this notice.

Closes	Solicitation	Number
Jul 29, 2026	Call for Solutions - Global Accountability Visibility Enhanced Logistics…	HQDA-G-44_26_01
Aug 21, 2026	Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Requirement to Procure Ultra High Frequency…	W91CRB-26-R-5013
Aug 21, 2026	Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Requirement to Procure Ultra High Frequency…	W91CRB-26-R-5013
Aug 28, 2026	Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Requirement to Procure Ultra High Frequency…	W91CRB-26-R-5013
Sep 4, 2026	Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Requirement to Procure Ultra High Frequency…	W91CRB-26-R-5013
Sep 9, 2026	Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Requirement to Procure Ultra High Frequency…	W91CRB-26-R-5013
Jul 30, 2027	Next Generation Identification and Awareness Initiative	W911SR-22-S-NGIA

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.