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The Aircraft Preservation BAFB solicitation is a federal contract for preservation services at Barksdale Air Force Base, a strategic-bomber installation with an active aircraft fleet and outdoor storage hardstands. Aircraft preservation work requires securing high-value airframes during maintenance cycles, protecting equipment laydown areas, and monitoring contractor access to restricted aprons. The extended-duration nature of preservation contracts and the distributed hardstand footprint align with mobile surveillance tower deployment rather than fixed infrastructure. The solicitation posted May 8 on SAM.gov under NAICS 488190 (Other Support Activities for Air Transportation) with a May 27 archive date, indicating a compressed response window. Project value is undisclosed in the source record. The pre-award timing is optimal for proposing site-security as a subcontractor scope item or as a direct security-services bid if the prime's scope allows unbundling. Once the contract awards, the security posture is set and hard to adjust mid-term. Houston branch sits 230 miles from Barksdale, inside the 300-mile coverage radius but at the outer edge of standard response range. No warm Zedcor customer operates nearby. The first move is to contact the contracting officer listed in the SAM.gov notice to clarify whether site security and surveillance fall under the prime's responsibility or if Zedcor can bid security services as a parallel contract, then propose mobile-tower coverage for the hardstand perimeter and equipment yards during the preservation cycle.