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12 open drone doors, 2 small-business gates
Sep 29, 2026 · Deadlines · C-UAS

12 open drone doors, 2 small-business gates: the next 29 days

Sep 29, 2026 · AwardTape · Data: SAM.gov notices scanned Sep 29 2026; DIU page checked Sep 29 2026
Ranked list of 12 open unmanned and counter-drone opportunities by days left, each tagged with who can bid
Twelve dated unmanned and counter-drone solicitations close between Oct 7 and Oct 28. Two carry a set-aside.

12 dated unmanned and counter-drone doors are open on SAM.gov and DIU as of Sep 29, and 2 of them carry a small-business set-aside. For a capture team, the gate decides whether a clock matters: sort by who can bid, then by days left.

Who can bid

  • Small business, 20 days: Army Design-Build to Budget Tactical UAV (W912PL26RA039), a solicitation under a Total Small Business set-aside, closes Oct 19 at 17:00 ET.
  • SDVOSB, 22 days: CBP controlled UAS platform (70B06C26R00000185), a controlled solicitation set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, closes Oct 21 at 17:00 ET.
  • DIU Bridge, 14 days: two CLASS ACT tracks for maritime counter-UAS (PROJ00718 sensors and effectors, PROJ00719 investors) close Oct 13 at 23:59 ET. DIU says CLASS ACT builds a bench of top-secret-cleared nontraditional firms, and every key manager must be a U.S. citizen.
  • Full and open, 16 days: Air Force Small UAS and Asymmetric Capabilities CSO Call-001 (FA8629-26-S-C001), set-aside NONE, closes Oct 15 at 17:00 ET.
  • Prize, 15 days: DIU Low Cost ISR (PROJ00711) closes Oct 14 at 23:59 ET.
  • Market research, 17 to 29 days: Project FLYTRAP 6.0 (WHSDIUFLYTRAP) and a DLA part survey close Oct 16; the AFLCMC Kinetic C-sUAS RFI (FA8629-26-R-5018) closes Oct 28.
  • Earliest clocks, 8 to 10 days: the PEO-M USV Poseidon's Fury assessment event (Oct 7), Army brigade UAS prototype white papers through the drone OTA consortium (Oct 8), and a Navy BOA add of two UAS NIINs (Oct 9). Confirm eligibility on each notice.

The read

Bid-now doors with a named set-aside are scarce: Army TUAV and CBP are the only two. Three of the twelve are market research, which shapes requirements before a solicitation prints. Firms outside the small-business pool have two full-and-open doors, Call-001 and the Navy BOA add, plus the DIU pathways. The full list, with links to every notice, is on the tracker.

Sources
  1. DIU open solicitations (CLASS ACT PROJ00718, PROJ00719; LC-ISR PROJ00711), checked Sep 29 2026: https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/open-solicitations
  2. SAM.gov W912PL26RA039 (Army TUAV, Total Small Business): https://sam.gov/opp/49b1e14964de4d44b405d71ccd609ce2/view
  3. SAM.gov 70B06C26R00000185 (CBP, SDVOSB): https://sam.gov/opp/3523cb83ef6541428f962c0a8c882ac1/view
  4. SAM.gov FA8629-26-S-C001 (Call-001): https://sam.gov/opp/f92426ff2a3241dc913530562677597a/view
  5. SAM.gov WHSDIUFLYTRAP (FLYTRAP 6.0): https://sam.gov/opp/155440222dcc4b78aefb0f9ecbd9e0cd/view
  6. SAM.gov FA8629-26-R-5018 (Kinetic C-sUAS RFI): https://sam.gov/opp/059ab269613b47f08bb2454a25bafef9/view
  7. SAM.gov PEO_M_USV_Poseidons_Fury_AE: https://sam.gov/opp/11215d725f4846e296fcdede82e45696/view
  8. SAM.gov RFW-DOTAC-ARMY-2026-003: https://sam.gov/opp/6f4f3512f23e4816a747af1c0f68b624/view
  9. SAM.gov N0038324U2985: https://sam.gov/opp/f9f9f87694674bff8a33a89f94780933/view
  10. SAM.gov DLA-Aberdeen-26-079: https://sam.gov/opp/614c3f12b32645f681c33a2cfdcd7088/view

That's the tape.

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