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DLA Learn to Navigate DIBBS webinar runs Oct 23

On 2026-10-23, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern Time (ET), DLA's small business outreach calendar lists "Weapons Support: Finding Opportunities - Learn to Navigate DIBBS Webinar Working Group (Free)." In the session, "you will learn how to register for a DIBBS account and how to navigate the website to find opportunities on which to bid." The calendar describes DIBBS as "a web-based application that provides the capability to search for, view, and submit secure quotes on Requests for Quotations (RFQs)." The calendar also lists "Weapons Support: Training Knowledge & Opportunities Seminar (Free)" on 11/17/2026 to 11/18/2026. It describes that seminar as "a course that teaches vendors how to start doing business with DLA Weapons Support." Its topics are finding open solicitations, quoting through DIBBS, viewing and downloading drawings, and getting paid through iRAPT. A further "Learn to Navigate DIBBS Webinar Working Group" is listed on 12/11/2026 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM.

Key dateOctober 23, 2026event
StatusFinal
ConfidenceConfirmed

What changed

On 2026-10-23, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern Time (ET), DLA's small business outreach calendar lists "Weapons Support: Finding Opportunities - Learn to Navigate DIBBS Webinar Working Group (Free)." In the session, "you will learn how to register for a DIBBS account and how to navigate the website to find opportunities on which to bid." The calendar describes DIBBS as "a web-based application that provides the capability to search for, view, and submit secure quotes on Requests for Quotations (RFQs)." The calendar also lists "Weapons Support: Training Knowledge & Opportunities Seminar (Free)" on 11/17/2026 to 11/18/2026. It describes that seminar as "a course that teaches vendors how to start doing business with DLA Weapons Support." Its topics are finding open solicitations, quoting through DIBBS, viewing and downloading drawings, and getting paid through iRAPT. A further "Learn to Navigate DIBBS Webinar Working Group" is listed on 12/11/2026 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM.

What it means for a DIBBS supplier

DIBBSFlow's reading

DIBBSFlow's reading, from the source above, checked 2026-10-21.

the 2026-10-23 session covers DIBBS registration and finding opportunities, and the November seminar goes on to quoting, drawings and invoicing, by the calendar's descriptions. Both are listed as free. See the calendar for event details; the next DIBBS webinar listed is 2026-12-11.

Source:DLA Office of Small Business Programs, Outreach Calendar (opened 2026-10-21)· Confirmed onOctober 21, 2026

Change log

  • 2026-10-21: added to the watch; source opened 2026-10-21.
  • 2026-10-21: held, Codex returned FIX; gate run 2026-10-21.
  • 2026-10-21: capture extended to every passage the item rests on and body rewritten to the capture; status restored from Held.
  • 2026-10-21: title shortened to a plain headline (Tony's review of the live cards); facts that left the title stay in What changed.

A public log of rule and deadline changes. DIBBSFlow alerts on your NSNs and CAGEs are a separate product.

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