C4Isr Government Tenders in United States

Command and control systems, and why integration dominates the requirement

Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance is a systems-of-systems requirement rather than a product category. The buyer is assembling a capability from sensors, bearers, processing, decision support and displays, much of which it already owns, and the procurement is usually for the integration that makes them work as one. The dominant evaluation criterion is therefore architecture: whether the proposed solution uses open, published interfaces that let components be replaced, or whether it creates a single supplier the buyer cannot leave.

Interoperability is specified through named standards and message formats so that systems from different suppliers, and frequently from different nations, can exchange tracks, orders and reports without bespoke translation. Buyers assess conformance through testing against reference implementations rather than through declarations, and they acquire technical data rights deliberately, because the right to integrate a future component is worth more over a system's life than any feature in the initial delivery.

Security accreditation is the gate that governs the programme timetable. Systems handling classified information must be accredited before use, cross-domain transfer between classification levels is tightly controlled and slow to approve, and the supply chain itself is assessed for provenance. Cleared personnel, approved facilities and export licensing determine who may bid and where work may be done. Resilience requirements -- operating degraded, operating without connectivity, recovering after loss of a node -- are specified and tested rather than asserted, because that is the condition the system exists for.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys c4isr in United States?

GlobalGov holds 294 c4isr records from 68 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are DLA Aviation at Oklahoma City, Ok (48 records); DLA Land and Maritime (38 records); DLA Land and Maritime (31 records); DLA Aviation (27 records); DLA Aviation (21 records); DLA Aviation at Philadelphia, Pa (10 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 60% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.

What are c4isr contracts worth in United States?

14 of the 294 records publish a contract value. The median is $108.4M and the largest single published value is $879.8M. By size, 4 under $100k, 10 above $10M. The remaining 280 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to c4isr tenders in United States?

Across the 279 United States c4isr notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 15 days. A quarter of them allowed 8 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 31. 115 of them (41%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.

How often are c4isr tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 24 notices a month in this category, 291 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 292, spread across 13 separate months of activity since 6 May 2020. April is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.

Where do the United States c4isr records on this page come from?

These 294 records are collected from 3 official sources: SAM.gov (279), USAspending (10), Simpler.Grants.gov (5). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Open C4Isr tenders in United States

Showing 4 of the 12 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the United States market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.

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