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Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP) Innovative Delivery of Effects (RIDE) Supplemental Request for Information (RFI) – Industry Statements of Capability (SOCs)

Agency: DEPT OF DEFENSE / DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE
Location: KIRTLAND AFB, NM
Amount: Amount not listed
Posted: Sep 11, 2026
Set-aside: None (open competition)
NAICS code: 481212 look up NAICS codes
PSC code: AR15

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Sep 11, 2026
Listing updated

Sep 13, 2026
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Agency: DEPT OF DEFENSE / DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE
Location: KIRTLAND AFB, NM
NAICS: 481212
Scope: Federal

Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP) Innovative Delivery of Effects (RIDE) Supplemental Request for Information (RFI) – Industry Statements of Capability (SOCs): 1.

RIDE Overview (Updated): The Space Systems Command (SSC), System Delta 80 (SYD 80), Small Launch and Targets Division (AMX) manages the Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP).

Supplemental to the previous RFI posted on 25 April 2025 (https://sam.gov/opp/19f4b8b3647940b48fa14134d23249a9/view#contact), RSLP still plans to execute its suborbital and orbital launch services by employing its new RSLP Innovative Delivery of Effects (RIDE) acquisition strategy.

RIDE acquisitions will serve as the next generation of RSLP launch service contracts, succeeding the Orbital Services Program-4 (OSP-4), Small Rocket Program-Orbital (SRP-O), and Sounding Rocket Program-4 (SRP-4) programs.

RSLP will continue to provide responsive space, experimental, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E), and small operational launch vehicles and targets support to the Department of War (DoW) and other Government agencies using commercial services and excess ballistic missile assets.

RIDE acquisitions are intended to support a wide variety of customer-driven requirements that may not traditionally fall within the scope of NSSL requirements, from integration and launch of payloads intended for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and beyond, to suborbital vehicle development, and more.

Given the variety of launch missions with varying degrees of complexity that RSLP anticipates supporting, the RIDE acquisition strategy may result in one (1) or more contract vehicles [such as an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, which is currently being considered].

In response to industry feedback captured by RSLP’s first RFI solicitation, Attachm...

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