Surveillance & Isr Government Tenders in United States

Sensors, exploitation and why the data pipeline is the real requirement

Surveillance and reconnaissance capability is frequently mis-scoped as a sensor purchase. The sensor is rarely the constraint: the constraint is everything downstream of it -- the bearer that moves the data, the storage that holds it, the tools that exploit it, and the trained analysts who turn it into something a decision-maker can use. Tenders that specify a camera and not the exploitation chain routinely deliver a capability that produces more data than the organisation can look at, and buyers have grown more explicit about specifying the whole chain.

Interoperability is specified through data standards rather than through products. Imagery and motion imagery formats, embedded metadata describing where and when a frame was taken, and the message formats used to share tracks and reports are named in the requirement so that sensors from different suppliers can feed one picture. Buyers increasingly demand open architectures with published interfaces precisely to avoid a single supplier owning the pipeline, and they assess the technical data rights they acquire alongside the equipment.

Access and legal constraints govern participation and use. Security clearance for personnel and facilities, export licensing, and restrictions on foreign ownership determine who may bid; the rules governing collection, retention and sharing determine what the system may lawfully do once delivered, and for systems with any domestic application those rules are stricter and the oversight arrangements form part of the specification. Support for a deployed system -- spares, calibration, software currency and the availability of cleared engineers -- is priced over years, not at delivery.

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 surveillance & isr in United States?

GlobalGov holds 883 surveillance & isr records from 200 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (124 records); DLA Aviation (51 records); DLA Land and Maritime (48 records); Centers For Disease Control And Prevention - ERA (34 records); Centers For Disease Control - CGH (28 records); Centers For Disease Control - Ncbddd (23 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 35% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are surveillance & isr contracts worth in United States?

78 of the 883 records publish a contract value. The median is $239,818 and the largest single published value is $1.5B. By size, 33 under $100k, 16 between $100k and $1M, 8 between $1M and $10M, 21 above $10M. The remaining 805 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 surveillance & isr tenders in United States?

Across the 824 United States surveillance & isr notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 23 days. A quarter of them allowed 12 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 60. 240 of them (29%) 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 surveillance & isr tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 42 notices a month in this category, 499 in the last twelve months. That is 4890% more than the 10 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 531, spread across 163 separate months of activity since 4 May 2006. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.

How does United States compare with other surveillance & isr markets?

Among the 14 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable surveillance & isr market, United States ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within United States itself, surveillance & isr is the 34th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the United States surveillance & isr records on this page come from?

These 883 records are collected from 4 official sources: SAM.gov (461), Grants.gov (401), Simpler.Grants.gov (11), USAspending (10). 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 Surveillance & Isr tenders in United States

Showing 10 of the 34 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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