Request for Information - Project 505, Optical Ground Station for SDA

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Request for Information - Project 505, Optical Ground Station for SDA

Dept of Defense, Fa2548 Spc Rpd Cpblts Offc Spc Rco, SpRCO-26-505

The U.S. Governemnt is releasing this RFI to solicit industry input for the technical maturation, lifecycle support, and sustainment of the Project 505 Optical Ground Station (OGS) for Space Domain Awareness

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

What else bears on this

Also open from this office 2

Posted by FA2548 SPC RPD CPBLTS OFFC SPC RCO, the same office that posted this notice.

Closes	Solicitation	Number
Jul 26, 2026	PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE UPDATE Satellite Communication Augmentation…	Satellite_Communication_Augmentation_Resource_(SCAR)_Increment_1
Jul 26, 2026	PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource…	Satellite_Communication_Augmentation_Resource_(SCAR)_Increment_1

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 8

Companies in our directory under Ground segment, which is where this notice matched: kw ground station. A category is our own grouping, so this says what a company sells rather than that it is eligible or interested.