Air Force RFI: AF/A4 (CIO), Systems Integration, Logistics Management, and Mission Support

Notice ID:  FA7014-24-LOGIT

The purpose of this procurement for the AF Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection’s (AF/A4) Directorate for Resource Integration and the Directorate for Logistics (the client organization) is to provide expert advice and support with the management, improvement, and integration of the AF/A4 Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection (LEF) activities.

The AF/A4 CIO is transforming its Portfolio Management methodology and approach (to include governance, strategy, data, technology insertion and innovation processes) to enable the LEF Enterprise with the strategic, operational, and tactical agility to rapidly deliver operational effects to the order of battle and effectively manage the ~$2.8B IT portfolio of information systems. The team oversees and manages 3 Program Elements (checkbooks) and must navigate through a panoply of mandates and processes to remain compliant, legal and cyber secure. This effort shall include:

1. Reducing approximately 140+ IT systems to a much smaller number and re-host any remaining to an approved cloud environment.
2. Preparing the remaining Logistics applications identified for migration to the cloud onto an approved cloud environment.
3. Continuing to conduct secure operations (Risk Management Framework (RMF)) effectively and efficiently closest to the mission for security (change management).
4. Streamlining and improving policy development and update processes.
5. Developing a plan to educate and train competent, ready cyber security workforce. f. Achieving and sustaining FIAR on behalf of A4 in coordination with other organizations and MAJCOMs.
6. Developing and institutionalizing rapid technology insertion (or innovation) processes across A4 domains.
7. Developing and integrating data standardization, governance, analytics, and policies.

The objective of this TO is to provide expert support in the areas of business-oriented planning, design, and monitoring. The primary objective is to provide expert monitoring, oversight, strategy, change management, and guidance to the A4 CIO and staff as legacy logistics systems and data are integrated into the overall mission of the AF/A4 and new capabilities are deployed based on industry best practices (e.g. Agile development), and provide infrastructure recommendations and re-hosting opportunities to more effectively and efficiently support DevSecOps. An additional objective of this TO is to provide A4 Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection policy development and Enterprise A4 Governance management in order to guide the development and execution of the Enterprise Logistics Strategy.

AF/A4 requires expert support to advise the functional and CIO staff as it undertakes a significant transformation to facilitate functional and IT best practices throughout the domain. While there are pockets of consistency in the workload of this organization, most of the work is unstructured, complex, cutting edge, involves technological unknowns and is often subject to changing requirements and priorities. While the current focus is primarily on Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) functional systems, standardization into civil engineers and security forces is expected to rapidly gain traction. This will require change specialists to …

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