The Department of Defense, United States Air Force (USAF), Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), Armament Directorate, Attack Division (EBD), Small Diameter Bomb II Program Office (EBDM) intends to solicit and award a seven (7) year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) sole source contract under the authority of RFO 6.103-1. EBDM currently has an active sole source IDIQ contract with Raytheon Company for a similar requirement.
The Attack Division requires lifecycle support of the SDB II weapon system. This lifecycle support includes, but is not limited to, all efforts related to the SDB II and variants in support efforts for weapon integration, production, sustainment, testing, and management, logistics support, testing, training, upgrades, and software updates. Additionally, studies and analysis related to current and future expansion of system performance, simulations, modeling, test hardware, technical support, aircraft integration activities, procurement of all associated test hardware to support the activities and repair of non-warranted assets will be procured using this contract vehicle. Technical support for the SDB II system provides for engineering, management fielding and logistical tasks required to ensure technical baselines remain current and effective and that future growth requirements remain feasible. Contract types may include firm fixed price, fixed price incentive firm, cost reimbursement, cost-plus fixed fee, and/or cost-plus incentive fee.
Any interested vendors shall submit a response demonstrating their capability to provide these items/perform this effort to the Primary Point of Contact listed below. Proposals are not being requested or accepted at this time. As stipulated in RFO 15.101(c)(2)), responses to this notice are not considered offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. No solicitation (Request for Proposal) exists at this time; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. The decision to solicit a contract shall be solely within the Government's discretion.
CAPABILITIES STATEMENT: To assist the Government in determining technical feasibility and finding qualified alternative sources, please structure your Capability Statement to answer the following questions:
- Security Clearance Mandate: All interested vendors must possess and maintain an active Top Secret Facility Clearance (FCL) with safeguarding capabilities up to the Secret level at the time of submission. Personnel assigned to this effort must possess active security clearances commensurate with their duties.
- Operational Constraint (Proprietary OEM Data): A portion of the SDB II software/guidance algorithms is proprietary to the OEM, and a complete Technical Data Package (TDP) is not available to the Government for distribution. To be deemed capable, alternative vendors must demonstrate the ability to support the weapon system through reverse engineering, clean-room development, and hardware-in-the-loop validation.
- Capability Questionnaire: Please provide detailed, outcome-based responses to the following nine (9) evaluation areas:
- Baseline & Configuration Management: Describe your experience maintaining and updating technical baselines for complex guided weapon systems without relying on proprietary OEM data. Explain your process for ensuring strict configuration control during concurrent hardware and software upgrades.
- Aircraft & Platform Integration: Detail your technical capability and past performance integrating munitions or complex hardware/software systems onto military aircraft platforms. Address how you manage and verify physical, electrical, and logical interface compliance.
- Test Hardware & Modeling: Explain your capability to procure, maintain, or reverse-engineer test hardware, and develop high-fidelity simulation/modeling environments to analyze system performance and expand weapon capabilities.
- Legacy Algorithm Reverse-Engineering: Describe your technical methodology for reverse-engineering, modeling, and simulating legacy, closed-architecture algorithms to maintain operational weapon system baselines when source code is unavailable.
- Clean-Room Software Engineering: Explain your organizational process for executing clean-room software development or designing wrapper/adapter software to successfully integrate proprietary system logic with modern, open-architecture updates.
- Binary Analysis & HWIL Testing: Detail your experience analyzing compiled binary code and utilizing Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) testing environments to verify, validate, and predict proprietary algorithm behavior.
- Logistical support for sustainment: Explain maintenance support and repairs.
- Modernizations through Obsolescence, Diminishing Sources and Sustainability: Explain your methodology to ensure you can maintain production with continued production support into the future.
- Transition & Risk Mitigation: Outline your rapid mobilization methodology to execute a seamless 60-day transition of operations from an incumbent contractor, ensuring zero program downtime and minimal logistical friction to active weapon system support.
Submissions: must not exceed ten (10) pages** (8.5 x 11 inch paper, 11-point Times New Roman font minimum, 1-inch margins). Cover pages, corporate descriptions, and table of contents do not count toward this limit. Small businesses with only partial capabilities of this requirement are encouraged to submit their capabilities statement demonstrating the portion of the requirement they are capable of providing/performing. This information will allow the Government to identify areas of possible subcontracting opportunities.
The NAICS Code assigned to this acquisition is 332993, Ammunition (Except Small Arms) Manufacturing, with a small business size standard of 1500 persons. Respondents should indicate their size in relation to this size standard and indicate socio-economic status (i.e. SB, 8(a), HUBZone, EDWOSB, WOSB, or SDVOSB). Respondents are further requested to indicate their status as a Foreign-owned/Foreign-controlled firm and any contemplated use of foreign national employees on this effort. The Government reserves the right to consider a small business set-aside based upon responses hereto for any subsequent action. All prospective contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database to be awarded a DoD contract. No set-aside decision has been made. Note that a key factor in determining an acquisition to be a Small Business Set Aside is that small business prime contractors must perform at least 50% of the effort, as defined in RFO 52.219-14.
Any information submitted by respondents to this synopsis is voluntary. This notice is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. The Government will not reimburse any costs associated with the submission of information in response to this notice. Respondents will not be individually notified of the results of any government assessments. The Government's assessment of the capability statements received will factor into whether any forthcoming solicitation will be conducted as a full and open competition or as a set-aside for small business, or any small business program.
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has appointed an Ombudsman to hear concerns from potential offerors relating to this acquisition. The Ombudsman does not diminish the authority of the Program Director or Contracting Officer, but communicates contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate Government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the source selection process. Matters of a routine or administrative nature concerning this acquisition should not be addressed to the Ombudsman but rather the Contracting Officer identified. For any other concerns, interested parties may contact the following Air Force Life Cycle Management (AFLCMC) Ombudsman: Col Sean Tucker, AFLCMC/AQ-AZ, (312) 785-5512/DSN 785-5512, ASCA@us.af.mil
Responses may be submitted electronically to the following point of contact: Stacey Diven, Contract Specialist, (850) 883-2608; e-mail stacey.diven@us.af.mil or Cameron Newton, Contracting Officer, (850) 885-0661; e-mail cameron.newton.2@us.af.mil. All correspondence sent via email shall contain a subject line that reads "FA8672-26-R-B001 SDBII IDIQ 4". If this subject line is not included, the e-mail may not get through e-mail filters at Eglin AFB. Filters are designed to delete emails without a subject or with a suspicious subject or attachment. Attachments with files ending in .zip or .exe are not allowable and will be deleted. Ensure only .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xsls, or .xls documents are attached to your email. All other attachments may be deleted
RESPONSES ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 5:00 P.M. (CDT) ON 27 July 2026. Direct all questions concerning this requirement to Capt Cameron Newton via email at cameron.newton.2@us.af.mil.
