Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) Call for Whitepapers for Mission…

Special Notice Due Oct 16, 2026

Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) Call for Whitepapers for Mission Development Zone (MDZ) Outgrant

Dept of Defense, Space Systems Command, VSFBMDZCall

Responses close Oct 16, 23:00 UTC

** The response due date has been extended from 2 October 2026 to 16 October 2026** 1. DESCRIPTION 1.1. Growth of the U.S. Domestic Space industry has resulted in a greater demand

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

What else bears on this

Also open from this office 1

Posted by SPACE SYSTEMS COMMAND, the same office that posted this notice.

Closes	Solicitation	Number
Oct 2, 2026	Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) Call for Whitepapers for Mission…	VSFBMDZCall

What this buyer has signed $7.6B

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…
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION	$843M	Jun 24, 2026	AWARD FOR THE THAAD MAC MULTI-YEAR PRODUCTION CONTRACT…
DYNETICS, INC.	$617M	Apr 14, 2026	DO FOR THE FY26 PRODUCTION BUY.
RAYTHEON COMPANY	$500M	May 26, 2026	KUWAIT NASAMS 7 LOT PROCUREMENT
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION	$425M	Apr 29, 2026	PURCHASE HIGH MOBILITY ARTILLERY ROCKET SYSTEMS (HIMARS)…
RAYTHEON COMPANY	$198M	Apr 17, 2026	SM-3 BLOCK IIA UNDER LAYER.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS…	$150M	May 14, 2026	SATCOM SPACE VEHICLE
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS…	$127M	Mar 26, 2026	FRP-18 GQM-163A BASE TARGET VEHICLE USN

Suppliers who do this kind of work 15

Companies in our directory under Spacecraft & buses, which is where this notice matched: kw spacecraft. 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 6 more in these categories.