About this opportunity
AI summaryThe Joint Warfare Analysis Center seeks information from contractors to provide on-site specialized engineering support, software reverse engineering, and artificial intelligence expertise in Dahlgren, Virginia. The requested scope includes equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, patches, and proof of concept development across telecommunications, computer networking, and computing automation environments. Support will involve developing hardware, software, and firmware tools to support threat network analysis, tactics development, and foundation model AI pipelines. Respondents must provide answers to technical questions covering software reverse engineering capabilities, TS/SCI-cleared personnel, and full-lifecycle artificial intelligence model development. Submissions are due by noon EST on November 15, 2026. The source text does not state evaluation criteria, budget, or the contract term.
Scope of work
- Specialized engineering support for equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, and patches
- Hardware, software, and firmware tool development for proof of concept
- On-site software reverse engineering of source code, binaries, or hardware
- Support for threat network and Tactics, Techniques and Procedure development
- Designing and executing distributed AI training runs on GPU clusters
- Architecting and maintaining high-throughput ingestion, filtering, and streaming pipelines
- Full-stack hardware-software co-design for constrained workloads
- Applying agentic AI, test-time compute scaling, neurosymbolic integration, and ML security
Minimum qualifications
- Analysts at the TS//SCI level
- Ability to have analyst(s) sit at Joint Warfare Analysis Center in Dahlgren, VA 100% of the time
Documents to include with your response
- Answers to the attached questions
Key dates
- Responses due
- noon est 15 Nov 2026
How to submit
- Instructions
- Please provide the answers to the attached question
Contract details
- Place of performance
- Dahlgren, VA
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- FA489027RFI0004
- Agency
- Dept of Defense
- Buying office
- Dept of the AIR Force › FA4890 HQ ACC Amic
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Responses due
- Nov 15, 2026, 12:00 PM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Nov 3, 2026
- NAICS
- 5417
- Product/service code
- AC11
- Set-aside
- No Set aside used
- Place of performance
- Dahlgren, VA, 22448
- Contracting contact
- Kadra Martz
kadra.martz@us.af.mil - Additional contact
- Jeff Kniesche
donald.j.kniesche.civ@mail.mil
Source: SAM.gov. Read the official notice for the complete description and current instructions.