AMRAAM Blanket RFI.docx

Request for Information, FA8556-26-R-AMRAAM for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) Production and Support/Sustainment I. Purpose/Description The Government anticipates issuing multiple new contract actions in support of the Weapons Superiority Division requirements to be issued on a sole-source basis to Raytheon Company (CAGE: 15090) under various contracts issued out of Robins AFB and Eglin Airforce base covering requirements for Production, Support, and Sustainment of the AMRAAM weapons system.

The United States Air Force (USAF), through the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) has requirements to produce/manufacture and sustain the AMRAAM missiles. The AMRAAM Program Office supports USAF, USN, and International (FMS) customers.

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI). As such, the purpose of this request is to conduct Market Research activity to gather information on whether any additional sources may be capable of meeting these requirements. NO solicitation exists. This is NOT a request for a quote, request for proposal, or an invitation to bid, nor is this to be construed as a commitment by the US Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. The Government will not reimburse or pay for any information submitted in response to this RFI or any follow-up information requests.

A more detailed breakout of fundamental requirements includes:

1. AMRAAM Missile Production: Production and delivery of the AMRAAM missile for future lot procurements. AMRAAM Missile production consists of manufacturing AIM-120C7, AIM-120D, Captive Air Training Missiles (CATMs), AMRAAM Telemetry Systems, Special Test Vehicles, AMRAAM Air Vehicles Instrumented (AAVI), providing associated warranties, and build/support of AMRAAM specific test equipment to fulfill AMRAAM production objectives. AMRAAM Production also includes the engineering, program management, and other direct support necessary to produce current and future AMRAAM missile variants on the AMRAAM production line.

2. Program Support and Annual Sustainment: AMRAAM Program Support Activities include support of AMRAAM future missile production through performance analyses, performance simulations/assessments, missile hardware and software support (including Common Built-In-Test (BIT) Reprogramming Equipment (CMBRE)), platform integration tasks, performance integrated product team management/engineering, integrated logistics support of the AIM-120 weapons system, support to the field, obsolescence support (also see DMSMS below), various weapons schools, telemetry asset management, technical data package (TDP) maintenance, FMS program manager support, FMS Integrated Telemetry Analysis System (ITAS) support, aircraft and missile integration activities necessary to field, upgrade or maintain the AIM-120 on all platforms, and other supplemental engineering and program manager support that may be required outside of direct missile production line support. AMRAAM sustainment activities include Contractor Logistics Support (CLS), AMRAAM system/sub-assembly repair (non-warranty repairs), infrastructure required to support repairs at a steady pace (e.g. integrated logistics assessments, integrated logistics support teams, performance review board support, sustainment and program management necessary to maintain or exceed current repair capability, material control, spares management), and a Service Life Prediction Program (SLPP) or Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) for all current and future AMRAAM variants. Additionally, CLS serves the repair needs of the USAF, USN, and FMS countries and includes the following support of the AMRAAM system: Depot-level repair of non-warranty AIM-120 missiles (all variants), CATMs (all variants), STVs (all variants), telemetry units (including recertification to verify missile performance), containers, and repairable/replaceable sub-assemblies/components of these end items. CLS also provides spares management, special tooling and test equipment maintenance (current and legacy), and hardware demilitarization/disposal. AMRAAM SLPP/SLEP program evaluates AMRAAM missiles in the US fielded inventory in order to identify potential avenues to extend the overall service life of the missile. SLPP/SLEPs purpose is to predict changes in missile safety, conduct reliability durability testing, study performance and reliability as a function of age and captive carry usage, and make recommendations and implement accepted recommendations in order to facilitate extensions of the estimated service life. Program Support and Annual Sustainment tasks are typically contracted for on a separate contract vehicle from AMRAAM production.

3. Technical Support: AMRAAM Technical Support provides materials, engineering, and management services to support AMRAAM production in various areas. Examples include AMRAAM software, AMRAAM flight test support, flight test analyses, user technical support, non-production simulations technical support, software deficiency corrections, flight/field team support, logistics support, studies and analyses of AMRAAM design and performance, and studies and analyses in support of AMRAAM obsolescence.

4. Other: Other efforts include any other contracts for AMRAAM production and sustainment. Examples include test equipment, support equipment, and DMSMS purchases/solutions. Test and support equipment includes the productions builds of AMRAAM specific testing stations and support equipment as well as the support of that equipment. AMRAAM DMSMS efforts include, identification, resolution, and/or mitigation or obsolescence issues for lower level assemblies (Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs), Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), etc) and components of AMRAAM fielded missile variants and AMRAAM production missile variants. More specifically, AMRAAM DMSMS includes and form, fit, function, refresh effort necessary to support production block changes, life-of-type buys (LTBs) for purchases of parts/components made by the prime contractor or its suppliers at any tier, qualification of replacement parts, or any other effort necessary to combat DMSMS challenges and build/sustain the AMRAAM variants.

If a prospective offeror believes they can satisfy all or some aspects of these requirements to provide AMRAAM production efforts as specified above and with no degradation to the AMRAAM weapon system, its performance or fielding/testing schedule, they should respond to this RFI. If your company cannot perform all of the requirements, provide details (teaming arrangements etc.) on the portions which you CAN perform.

II. Requested Information We invite all prospective offerors to submit a capabilities package. Marketing materials alone are considered insufficient. The capabilities package should be brief and concise, yet clearly demonstrate an ability to meet all stated requirements (or clearly demonstrate an ability to completely meet the portion the firm can perform) and any additional pertinent capabilities as discussed in this RFI. The package shall also include the following information and address the questions below:

FAILURE TO ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS OR PROVIDE ALL THE INFORMATION BELOW WILL BE CONSIDERED AN INSUFFICIENT RESPONSE

1. Company Information:

a. Company/Institute Name:

Address:

Point of Contact (to include phone number and email address):

CAGE Code (as applicable):

Web Page URL:

b. Size of business pursuant to NAICS Code 336414, Producing complete guided missiles and space vehicles, size standard 1,300 employees.

c. Size of business pursuant to NAICS Code 541330, Engineering Services, size standard $47.0M in annual sales.

d. Based on the above NAICS Codes, state whether your company is:

Economically Disadvantaged

Service Disabled Veteran Owned

All prospective offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database to be awarded a DoD contract. Both NAICS codes for this requirement, if applicable to the company’s capabilities, should be included in the company’s NAICS code listing in SAM. Please state whether these NAICS codes are included in the company’s SAM listing.

e. Is your company domestically or foreign owned (if foreign, please indicate the country of ownership)?

2. Capabilities Survey:

a. Does your firm have any knowledge of, or past experience with the AMRAAM including the various fielded configurations of missiles (CATM’s, AAVIs, STVs, etc), test equipment necessary to deliver a compliant missile, or other AMRAAM related engineering efforts? If so, please include past performance ratings/evaluations such as Contract Performance Assessment Ratings, Award Fee Determinations, or similar contract incentives to verify this assertion.

b. Does your firm have specific knowledge/expertise of AMRAAM, and/or history of providing AMRAAM sustainment support, AMRAAM materiel support (hardware/software), AMRAAM management activities, AMRAAM on-site support, AMRAAM training in direct support of the AMRAAM weapons system?

c. Does your company possess the necessary drawings, data, and other information required to support and sustain the AMRAAM weapons system? If yes, please provide supporting rationale and documentation.

d. Do you have access to the source code for the entire AMRAAM weapons system? If yes, please provide supporting rationale and documentation.

e. Does your firm have qualified personnel and facilities available to support onsite missile production, depot level repair, to include supply of AMRAAM spares and AMRAAM hardware/software?

f. Can your firm deliver and sustain AMRAAM air vehicles and support to the USAF, USN, and International Partners to current design and specification requirements?

g. Can your firm support the ongoing sustainment of the production and fielded configurations of the AMRAAM missile variants and the continuing integration of new components from a DMSMS perspective? This includes both hardware modifications of the fielded design, update of existing system hardware/software, and retrofit of new capabilities into the fielded systems.

h. Is your firm interested in the requirement as a potential prime contractor or as a subcontractor? Will your firm be in a teaming arrangement or be a part of a joint venture?

i. Does your firm have adequate financial resources to perform the contract, or the ability to obtain them?

j. Is your firm able to comply with the required or proposed delivery or performance schedule, taking into consideration all existing commercial and governmental business commitments?

k. Does your firm have the necessary organization, experience, accounting and operational controls, and technical skills, or the ability to obtain them (including, as appropriate, such elements as production control procedures, property control systems, quality assurance measures, and safety programs applicable to materials to be produced or services to be performed by the prospective contractor and subcontractors)?

l. Is your firm otherwise qualified and eligible to receive an award under applicable laws and regulations?

This is an INDUSTRY NOTIFICATION and is for INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. This is NOT A SOLICITATION. In accordance with FAR 15.201, this announcement shall not be construed as an obligation on the part of the Government. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this notice or otherwise pay for information solicited.

Direct and succinct responses to the request above addressing the requirements are preferred. Please limit complete responses to 10 pages. The font shall be Times New Roman and no smaller than 10 point with at least a one-inch margin.

The Government reserves the right to contact the submitting parties as required, for further clarification on material provided. In addition, the Government will use its assessment of the information and other research to determine which sources appear qualified to perform the work required by the Government. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the assessment.

There is no restriction on who can respond to this RFI. However, if submitting company proprietary information, please be sure it is clearly marked. To aid the Government, please segregate proprietary Information to the maximum extent possible. All submissions become Government Property and will not be returned. The Government shall not be liable for, or suffer any consequential damages, for any proprietary information not properly identified.

Responses must be provided no later than 05:00 PM Eastern on 30 January 2026 to Amanda Ragan, Contracting Officer, via email to amanda.ragan.1@us.af.mil, and Guy Serman, Capt USAF, Program Manager, via email to guy.serman@us.af.mil.