The Last RS3 Order Gets Placed in 263 Days

If you hold an RS3 seat, the clock you plan against is the one printed on your own task order. There is a second one underneath it, and it runs out first.

RS3's ordering period ends May 14, 2027. That is 263 days from today.

Every follow-on, every bridge, every scope expansion the Army wants to buy on that vehicle has to be placed before then.

Nine RS3 task orders sit on our expiration pipeline right now, carrying $940,756,965 in obligations between them. All nine come off contract in 2027, and seven of the nine reach their own end date before the vehicle stops taking work.

What Actually Closes on May 14

The orders themselves survive. FAR 52.216-22(d) says it plainly: "Any order issued during the effective period of this contract and not completed within that period shall be completed by the Contractor within the time specified in the order," and the contract keeps governing that order as though it had finished on time.

So an order placed on May 13, 2027 can run for years afterward. What ends is ACC-APG's ability to place a new one.

That distinction is the whole planning problem.

A continuation already priced into an existing order is an action on that order. A continuation that needs a fresh competition and a fresh order number is a 263-day problem, and the office that has to solve it is the same one that issued all nine.