Army AMC RFI: Virtualization Software and Solutions

Notice ID:  W519TC-24-F-AVSS

The Army is interested in improving their understanding of the commercial marketplace for virtualization software, solutions, and services.  As the Army’s computing environment evolves and becomes more complex it is critical that it fully understands current market trends, emerging capabilities, the optimum way to acquire those capabilities, and whether to diversify its current virtualization portfolio.  Of special interest are concerns regarding how to ensure uninterrupted, (potentially) 2 enduring, and most updated virtualized capabilities for its unique use cases that feature disconnected environments supporting military operations across both unclassified and classified networks.

White papers that address corporate expertise and qualifications with providing commercially-available virtualization software, solutions, and services.

1. Describe your software distribution approach for customers, both with and without, persistent and reliable internet connectivity.
2. Describe your software distribution approach for version upgrades and security patches for customers, both with and without persistent and reliable internet connectivity.
3. What software licensing models do you currently support (i.e. term, perpetual, subscription, etc.)? Does your company have a timeline for retiring support for perpetual and term licenses?  If so, please provide your software product support timeline. Be sure to address security updates and support for beyond end of sale software.
4. Describe how your company’s solutions can support the Army’s unique and enduring use cases to support global military operations, to include in contested environments.
5. DoD Cloud Security Reference Guide and FedRAMP authorizations. Identify the cybersecurity compliance and authorizations currently in place for your software, solutions, and services.
6. Describe how your hypervisor software provides and manages virtual machines; address how it shares and exposes physical components (include CPU, memory, storage, networking, and other resources) to the guest operating systems. In addition, describe how your software manages container runtime environments…

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