RFI for Aeronautical Mobile Application (AMA)

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a component of the Department of Defense, is seeking industry input through this Request for Information (RFI) for the Aeronautical Mobile Application (AMA) Program, which will provide software enhancement, maintenance, and continuous delivery support for an Electronic Flight Bag application suite. The AMA delivers time-sensitive Safety of Navigation aeronautical data, Instrument Approach Procedures, and Airport Diagrams to the Department of War and foreign partners across iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows platforms, with particular emphasis on operations in Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, and Low Bandwidth environments. Key contract requirements include ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certification, NIST SP 800-171 implementation, FedRAMP Moderate baseline equivalency for cloud services, achievement of 99.5% performance standards for application and dataset delivery, and maintenance of three versions of each application with full backward compatibility. The RFI seeks information on contractor capabilities including experience with aeronautical data processing, mobile application development, ATAK plug-in development, agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, security implementation aligned with NGA standards, and cost structures, with responses limited to 15 pages maximum. Responses must be submitted via email to Matthew.A.Hoffman@nga.mil by 5:00 PM ET on May 18, 2026, and this RFI is issued for information and planning purposes only without constituting a commitment to contract.

This opportunity carries no set-aside designation and represents a competitive procurement with no identified incumbent contractors mentioned in the materials. The anticipated period of performance spans five years, consisting of a base year plus four one-year option periods from March 20, 2027 through March 19, 2032, with work primarily performed at the contractor's facilities and remote submission of processing jobs via APIs to a contractor-provided platform. The contract requires processing of 11-25 gigabytes of aeronautical data on a 28-day AIRAC cycle schedule and maintenance of over 4.5 million lines of code across multiple platforms, with specific deliverables including corrective, preventive, adaptive, and perfective maintenance services during NGA business hours (0900-1700 EST, Monday-Friday). The government requires agile development methodology with 16-week release cycles comprised of 2-week sprints and expects key personnel including a Program Manager with minimum five years of IT/Software management experience and a Lead Engineer with minimum ten years of mobile application development experience. No specific budget value is disclosed in the RFI materials; however, the complexity of the requirements, multi-year period of performance, and extensive data processing capabilities suggest a substantial contract vehicle for qualified software development contractors.