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Joint Directed Energy Consortium Other Transaction Agreement

WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES

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Response status

Active notice

Not published

SAM.gov has not published a response deadline.

Posted
Aug 17, 2026
Archive date
Sep 10, 2026
SAM status
Active

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES published this award notice.
  • The notice uses NAICS 541715 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
af67c0102c624bd3b2aebf234be90385
Solicitation
HQ0034259JDEC_Award
Base type
Solicitation
Version
2 of 2

Solicitation facts

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

Notice type
Award Notice
Solicitation number
HQ0034259JDEC_Award
NAICS
541715 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
PSC
AC32 — NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; DEFENSE-RELATED ACTIVITIES; APPLIED RESEARCH
Set-aside
—
Set-aside code
—
Posted
Aug 17, 2026
Responses due
Not published
Archive date
Sep 10, 2026
Archive type
autocustom
Base type
Solicitation
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
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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
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City code
—
State
—
State code
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Postal code
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Country
—

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Award outcome

Outcome fields appear only when SAM published them on this notice.

Award number
HQ0034269E062
Award date
Jul 17, 2026
Award amount
$500,000,000.00
Line item
—
Awardee
NATIONAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR INC Crane IN 47522 USA
Awardee UEI
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Awardee CAGE
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Awardee location
—

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

The Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), in support of the Department of War Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW(R&E)) Scaled Directed Energy (SCADE), awarded the Joint Directed Energy Consortium (JDEC) to National Security Technology Accelerator, Inc. (NSTXL). JDEC is a consortium-managed other transaction agreement awarded under 10 USC 4022 with a ceiling of $500,000,000.00. The JDEC will support advancement of scaled directed energy via project agreements under the following authorities: 10 USC 4021 (research), 10 USC 4022 (prototype), 10 U.S.C. 4023 (experimentation), and 10 U.S.C 4025 (prizes).

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

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No comparable awards are attached to this notice.

Amendment history

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VersionNotice typeObservedResponses dueContent hash
1Award NoticeAug 19, 2026Not published8b63f11e5f027a8c
2Award NoticeAug 28, 2026Not published4c83e00c0e5cb395

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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