Payload Next Request for Information

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Targets Program is conducting market research to support acquisition strategy development to meet the MDA’s future Target Systems supporting missile defense capability testing. The Target Program is seeking innovative solutions to provide capable, flexible, high quality Reentry Vehicles and payloads that can be rapidly adapted to meet future testing requirements. The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to collect and analyze respondent’s capabilities within the market. Responses to this RFI are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.

NOTE: This RFI is also posted to Enterprise-Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC) portal. If you are responding to the SAM.Gov RFI please annotate this in your submission.

Update May 29, 2025

The MDA Targets Program seeks information and capable sources to support the paradigm shift and rapidly produce and perform services related to Payload Systems. The Government is interested in either partial solutions and/or full up solutions; to include consideration of a modular design to allow some or all of the capabilities listed in the RFI. The Government also encourages use of commercial components, subsystems or systems, as well as responses from non-traditional contractors in accordance with the recent Executive Orders.