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Software Defined Encryption DoW CIO

WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES · District of Columbia, 20301

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Response status

Due in 30 days

Sep 27, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC

Responses remain open.

Posted
Aug 27, 2026
Archive date
Oct 12, 2026
SAM status
Active

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES published this special notice.
  • The place of performance is District of Columbia.

Procurement identity

Notice ID
a36789b44e9941569c04d46314f15b15
Solicitation
SoftwareDefinedDoWCIO2026
Base type
Special Notice
Version
1 of 1

Solicitation facts

Structured fields from the current SAM notice version. A dash means the source did not publish a value.

Notice type
Special Notice
Solicitation number
SoftwareDefinedDoWCIO2026
NAICS
—
PSC
—
Set-aside
—
Set-aside code
—
Posted
Aug 27, 2026
Responses due
Sep 27, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Oct 12, 2026
Archive type
auto15
Base type
Special Notice
Organization type
OFFICE
Benchmark category
—
Category confidence
—
Category source
—
Last seen
Aug 29, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
DEPT OF DEFENSE
Department code
—
Subagency
WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES (WHS)
Subagency code
—
Office
WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES
Organization path
—
Organization path codes
—
Office address
WASHINGTON, DC, 203011000, USA
Place of performance
District of Columbia, 20301
City code
—
State
District of Columbia
State code
DC
Postal code
20301
Country
—

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

The Department of War (DoW) is seeking information on commercially available, software-only cryptographic solutions to enhance data protection for its programs of record. This Request for Information (RFI) is issued to identify potential sources and solutions that can meet the Department's requirements for interim data protection measures, which are designed to be consistent with and advance the DoW's migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC).

Comparable award range

Historical award values for work matched by the fixed rubric—not an estimate of this opportunity.

No past awards scored highly enough to form a comparable range.

Comparable awards

The match score is decomposed so each comparison can be challenged.

No comparable awards are attached to this notice.

Record provenance

Field-level lineage for the current opportunity version.

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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 Aug 29, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.

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

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