USAF Sources Sought: System Integration for Network, Systems, and Application Performance Visibility

Notice ID: 8726

The Department of the Air Force (DAF), Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), Cyber and Networks Directorate (HN), Enterprise Information Technology and Cyber Infrastructure Division (HNI), Program Management Office (PMO) is seeking a vendor to act as a system integrator for current systems of record. The goal is to combine data sources into a unified view, incorporating Infrastructure, Network capability, and endpoint performance data into a single view.

The primary change between the initial RFI (SAM.Gov Notice ID: UXM_RFI) and this revised RFI is the shift in focus from seeking a comprehensive monitoring solution to emphasizing system integration using existing pilot tools already deployed across the Department of the Air Force (DAF). The initial RFI aimed to gather information on solutions that provide real-time visibility into IT network, systems, and application performance, with capabilities such as service dependency mapping, network modeling, and application performance monitoring. In contrast, the revised RFI seeks a vendor to act as a system integrator to combine data sources into a unified view, incorporating infrastructure, network capability, and endpoint performance data. The goal is to enable real-time visibility and proactive issue resolution by integrating existing monitoring tools and systems to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the traffic and infrastructure within DAF networks.

The monitoring solution should include the ability to perform the following requirements:

• Service Dependency Mapping: Integrate tools to automatically map interdependencies between applications and alert on unexpected communication and bottlenecks.
• Network Modeling Capabilities: Integrate solutions to provide a dynamic network map, simulate network changes, compare configurations, support Distributed Tracing, and correlate with Network Events and Metrics from Logging.
• Application Performance Monitoring: Integrate tools for agent-based and synthetic testing for application performance monitoring, real-time transaction visibility, and user performance tracking.
• Customizable & Extensible: Support integration of tools for creating custom tests by non-expert programmers, ingesting and correlating data from other vendors, and integrating with existing DAF and DISA networking modeling investments.
• Standards: Ensure integration with industry standards supported, such as Export and Ingest of Open Telemetry data and compliance with Semantic Conventions for attributes.
• Accreditation and Approval: All integrated items must be Trade Agreements Act (TAA) compliant and approved for use within the Department of Defense (DoD).

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