Skip to content
  • 6,632 federal solicitations are open right now. How many of them are yours?
  • New solicitations are posted every day. The ones you never saw are the ones you cannot win.
  • Stop checking SAM.gov every morning. Let the contracts that fit your business come to you.
  • Tell Abierto what you sell in one sentence. AI reads every open solicitation for you.
  • Deadlines are short. Hear about a solicitation the day it is posted, not the week it closes.
  • Amendments move deadlines. Watch a solicitation and Abierto tells you when it changes.
  • See which contracts in your field are about to end, and who holds them today.
  • Plans from $39 a month. See your matches before you pay.
See plans
AbiertoGet started

Justification

SBS003522 Redacted Justification & Approval - ALTNAV

SBS003522

Defense Information Systems Agency, Telecommunications Division- HC1013. Satellite Telecommunications.

Awarded

Iridium Satellite LLC

$0.00 obligated so far on USAspending, August 22, 2025, contract HC101323D9004

Get the next one like this from Defense Information Systems Agency by email, the day it is posted.Find my opportunities

This one was awarded in 2025

4 like it are open now in satellite telecommunications

All 4 open in satellite telecommunications

Description

As published on SAM.gov.

The purpose of this notice is to make publicly available the justification and approval for the award of the subject sole source, firm fixed price purchase order under authority of FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(B).  This purchase includes operational PLEO broadcast service carrying alternative position, navigation, and timing (ALTPNT, or ALTNAV) signals, with global coverage for fixed monitoring station sites as well as ancillary activites of reporting, service management for the operational service, and on-site operational support as directed.  The satellite service will provide tactical communications to strategic forces.  See redacted J&A attached.

Attachments

Files listed on SAM.gov. The ones we hold a copy of download from here; the rest open SAM's download, which needs no account.

The contract, on USAspending

Federal procurement data the awarding office reported to FPDS, matched to this solicitation by its number.

UEI
HLRBBNMS1EB8
CAGE
1R7A4
Vendor location
Mclean, VA
Contract
HC101323D9004
Obligated
$0.00, potential $13,000,000,000
Actions
2 between September 5, 2024 and April 29, 2025
Competition
Full and Open Competition, 25 offers received
Set-aside reported
No Set Aside Used.
Described as
Operational Packaged Pleo Service
Match
award number HC101323D9004 equals the contract number; same awarding office HC1013 (high confidence)

Publications

Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.

  1. September 3, 2025

    Justification

    SAM.gov, notice ccf6e3d2d711475e953715ea1f18fabf

    1 revisions on SAM
    • September 3, 2025: publish, justification

Points of contact