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Special Notice

Tactical Air-Launched Weapon Demonstrating Industrialization

DEPT OF DEFENSE

Response status

Due in 11 days

Sep 15, 2026, 9:00 PM UTC

Responses remain open.

Posted
Sep 1, 2026
Archive date
Sep 30, 2026
SAM status
Active

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What the source record says

  • DEPT OF DEFENSE published this special notice.
  • The notice uses NAICS 541715 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
8ae2ad2827254025a80b26808140d51d
Solicitation
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Special Notice
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1 of 1

Solicitation facts

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Special Notice
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Posted
Sep 1, 2026
Responses due
Sep 15, 2026, 9:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Sep 30, 2026
Archive type
auto15
Base type
Special Notice
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DEPARTMENT
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Last seen
Sep 5, 2026

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DEPT OF DEFENSE
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DEPT OF DEFENSE
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Notice description

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NOTICE OF CONTRACTING ACTION Broad Agency Announcement: FA2391-23-S-2403 Pioneering Aerospace Capabilities, Engineering and Research (PACER) CALL Name: Tactical Air-Launched Weapon Demonstrating Industrialization The Department of the Air Force, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Air Warfare Directorate (RA), hereby provides notice of its intent to issue a focused call under the active Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) entitled, �Pioneering Aerospace Capabilities, Engineering & Research (PACER)� (Solicitation Number FA2391-23-S-2403). This anticipated call will solicit innovative solutions for producing an operationally relevant, air-launched hypersonic weapon for less than 1/5 the cost and greater than 5x the production rate of current systems. Offerors are encouraged to consider modular, open architectures together with aggressive application of design for manufacturing and digital engineering principles. The evaluation process will be conducted in a single round; offerors will be invited to submit full technical and cost proposals. Specific technical objectives, evaluation criteria, anticipated funding, period of performance and submission instructions will be detailed in the forthcoming call. The call is expected to be posted as an amendment to the parent BAA on SAM.gov within the next 15 days. Interested parties are strongly encouraged to monitor SAM.gov for the official release of the Call and any associated attachments. Technical Point of Contact: Timothy Eymann, Program Manager Contracting Point of Contact: Eric Carretta, Contracting Officer

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Record provenance

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Sources and method

Figures on this page are computed from public federal award records. Numbers are never estimated or generated; where a figure is withheld, the reason is stated rather than filled in.

  1. 1Notice fields come from the SAM.gov contract opportunities record last seen Sep 5, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.

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