$15.7 Billion Comes Off Contract on September 30

If your FY27 board has a line on it that reads J-TECH III, pull the award record before your next pipeline review.

J-TECH II, the Joint Range Technical Services contract that JT4 LLC has held at the Air Force Test Center since April 2018, ends its period of performance on September 30. Twenty-two days. That is exactly the kind of date that gets a program onto a capture board.

The same award record carries a second date. Potential end: 2033-04-15.

"Which of the contracts ending this month are actually coming up for competition?"

Two Contracts, One End Date

Put J-TECH II next to E-OMS, the Eglin operations and maintenance services contract that Reliance Test & Technology has held since 2016.

The two look like siblings on any pipeline screen. Same buying command, both Air Force Test Center. Same NAICS, 541330.

Both awarded full and open with three offers. Both end 2026-09-30.

On E-OMS the potential end date is also 2026-09-30. Every option is spent.

$1,310,483,207 of obligations, and on October 1 there is nothing left to exercise.

On J-TECH II the potential end date is six and a half years out. $2,857,939,060 obligated so far, and the government still holds the paper it needs to keep JT4 in place through April 2033 without publishing a thing.

One of those is a recompete. The other is a renewal decision that has not been made yet.

What the Second Date Actually Is

The field is the ultimate completion date in FPDS, which surfaces on USAspending as potential_end_date. It is the end of the last option period the contract contains, priced and negotiated at award.

The current end date is only how far the contracting officer has actually exercised.

So the mechanism is boring and that is the point. Under FAR 52.217-9 the government extends by unilateral notice inside the window the contract already gives it.

No synopsis, no sources sought, no evaluation, no protest window, no debrief.

The incumbent's team keeps its badges and the pipeline entry you built a capture plan around quietly becomes an FY28 problem.

J-TECH II has done this eight times. The current completion date on the modification history walks forward one fiscal year at a time, 2018-09-30 to 2019-09-30 to 2020-09-30, all the way to the 2026-09-30 that a September 29, 2025 modification put there.

Across all of it the ultimate completion date never moves.

And the money says extension. J-TECH II has obligated $382.6M in FY26 against $398.1M in FY25, its best year (chart below).

Contracts genuinely running out do not spend at full rate in the last quarter.

The last time this work was competed, the solicitation number was FA824015R7218. A fiscal 2015 solicitation produced an April 2018 award. Three years. If the Air Force Test Center wanted J-TECH III in place before the option runway expires, the market research would already be public. A SAM.gov search across the contracting office's number series this morning returns 24 notices, the newest of them a micro-reactor presolicitation and a maintenance RFI. There is no J-TECH III.