Sources sought

Requesting information for MISHAP ANALYSIS & ANIMATION FACILITY (MAAF) FLIGHT RECORDER DOWNLOAD SOLUTIONS ACQUISITION AND SUSTAINMENT

Notice type	Sources Sought: Market research. The agency wants to know who can do this work. Answering is free and can get the job set aside for small businesses.
Who's buying	Fa9401 377 Msg Pk, Dept of the Air Force
Where	Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
Deadline	Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM EDT (5 days left)
Who can bid	Open to any business (no set-aside listed)
Industry	NAICS 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services)
Solicitation #	FA940126Mishap
Posted	Mon, Sep 28, 2026
Contact	CASSANDRA BENGFORT, [email protected]

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The contractor shall provide engineering, acquisition, and sustainment services to develop, maintain, and sustain modern hardware+software solutions for USAF aircraft flight recorder download and data decompression / transcription. This effort encompasses developing download capabilities for both full-up (undamaged) flight recorders and bench-level extracted Circuit Card Assemblies (CCA) across diverse solid-state recorder architectures. All software and hardware interfaces developed must execute on modern computer hardware and operating systems (e.g., Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Microsoft Windows) and yield output file formats fully compatible with Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) data decompression and transcription software tools.

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