AFTAC's Geophysical Signal Exploitation System (GeoSES)

INFORMATIONAL UPDATE 21 JULY 2026 -- See attached widely disseminated e-mail to those industry partners who have participated, contacted, and/or submitted a white paper to the Government in response to the original post. Email file name, "GeoSES Status UPDATE_REMINDER to Industry 2026.07.21.pdf". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE AND IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. IT IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY. ATTENTION INDUSTRY PARTNERS: SAM.gov is the official source for all Government procurement actions and contract information. Do not rely on third-party websites or vendor subscriptions for accurate details on RFIs, Sources Sought notices, solicitations, and contract awards. The government is not responsible for inaccurate or incomplete information from these sources. We encourage industry to continuously monitor this notice for potential updates or other communication. Updates will be provided through this Notice via SAM.gov only. UPDATE 13 NOVEMBER 2025: This sources sought update is to provide the following. Provide Government Answers to Industry Questions in a consoliditate pdf document. The pdf document is provided in the attachments section to this notice and access is restricted and must be requested. We are making efforts to provide access within a day or two of request. Once a company makes the document request via SAM.gov, the system provides the Government's poin of contacts with an email notification, so please avoid sending us a separate email since that can consume a lot of our time. The name of the attachment is, "(U) GeoSES_ConsolidatedQuestionsandAnswers_Final_2025.11.13". No furhter updates. UPDATE 12 SEPTEMBER 2025: This sources sought update is to provide the following. The White Paper due date is now pushed out as reflected on bullet 6 below. Please disregard the dates indicated on the MS Word Document attachment, titled, "GeoSES_SourcesSoughtNotice_Rev_2025.06.17". Additional relevant documents to GeoSES are provided via the Attachments/Links within this Notice with restricted access and will require ONLY ONE point of contact (POC) per company to request download access to each document. We kindly ask each company to be considerate with the Government's time and avoid mutliple people's requests from the same company or division. Duplicate requests will be rejected. As a reminder, a Top-Secret Facility Clearance (TS/FCL) Capability is still required. Companies not possessing the required FCL and/or having Active or Inactive Exclusions in SAM.gov at the time of documents release, will not be provided access to the documents. There is no exception to this. Please disseminate this information within your company. The following Documents are posted and required access request. AFTAC Fact Sheet as of April 2024 (Public access) (U) USNDC_SRD_Industry Day_V3 (CUI) (U) USNDC_CSCI_20250722 (CUI) (U) SSDD_REV38_Industry Day (CUI) --- please note this doucment is still under review and is provided "as is." (U) GeoSES Industry Day Consolidated Brief (CUI) The Government intends to provide the Answers to already submitted Industry Questions next week. Industry may submit Additional Questions based on the above Technical Documents: by 1200ET on 22 September 2025. Please inlcude company name and POC information as well as format the email subject line as follows: Include the following on your emails subject line: GeoSES_ [REPLACE Brackets with email purpose (e.g., Questions)] from [ REPLACE brackets with your company’s short name] Government will attempt to Provide Answers to Industry Questions (via SAM.gov): 03 October 2025 Industry White Papers Due : by 1330 EDT on 28 October 2025 Government Scientific Review of White Papers Complete: TBD Notify Industry of Scientific Review results to further consider or not for RFP: TBD Potential Contract Award remianed at approximately between April and June 2026. Future updates and milestones will be provided via SAM.gov. No further updates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE 13 AUGUST 2025: This UPUDATE provides important information regarding the GeoSES. The information provided below is for your situational awareness. Regarding Document Availability: From the SAM.gov August 6th update, while we have received requests from various companies through SAM.gov, no new documents have been posted yet as we are still awaiting updated documents and security approval for release. FYSA - The August 6th update on SAM.gov was actually the removal of the SDSV1.3 document from "public availability". This document was marked as CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information) and should not have been publicly published. The document was then re-added with restricted/controlled access, requiring individual requests via SAM.gov. However, you should already have the SDSV1.3 document from previous communications. It is the same document; so, there is no need to request it via SAM.gov. For all other pending documents necessitating release from the Government, be advised that we are still working through the process of releasing the documents. Our Security Office has neither finalized their reviews nor provided the clearance for releasing the documents yet. This will include the .ppt Industry Day Slide Deck. We are also still working in p…