Army RFI: System Engineering Technical Support (SETS)

Notice ID 24-A6-009

The Air National Guard (ANG) requires Systems Engineering Technical Support services to support ongoing ANG and Air Force (AF) strategies within the ANG enterprise network. The Systems Engineering Technical Support shall support the existing Air National Guard and Air Force Information Technology (IT) enterprises. The contractor shall have in-depth expertise in both the technical and non-technical aspects of these capabilities to help manage program execution of information technology initiatives to include enterprise IT infrastructure revitalization, Unified Communication Capabilities, Air Force Network (AFNET) integration, Joint Information Environment (JIE) and enterprise unique applications supporting the ANG mission. Moreover, the scope requires the ability and experience to understand the ANG and the AF enterprise to anticipate tradeoffs, reduce risks, and operate within a budget constrained environment.  The contractor shall have the expertise to offer advice on emerging technologies and cost benefit and security risk as it applies to the ANG.

This work requires a high degree of system specific knowledge and a background in the various technologies currently being incorporated into the Joint Information Environment (JIE), DoD Information Enterprise Architecture, Data Center Reference Architecture, cloud services and zero trust networking.

The JIE is dependent upon developing and implementing new technical capabilities on an unprecedented scale. As described in “The Department of Defense Strategy for Implementing the Joint Information Environment, September 18, 2013,” the JIE focuses around six complex technical areas:

1.2.1 Single Security Architecture (SSA) – Establishing an SSA will collapse network security boundaries, reduce the Department’s external attack surface, enable better containment and maneuver in reaction to cyberattack, and standardize management, operational, and technical security controls.

1.2.2 Network Normalization – DoD’s current system of disparate network, processing, and storage infrastructures impedes internal and external collaboration for the warfighter and mission partners. As such, a foundational aspect of achieving the JIE is to provide a single, protected information environment that securely, reliably, and seamlessly interconnects warfighters.

1.2.3 Identity and Access Management – Optimized Global Identification, Authentication, Access Control, and Directory Services are central to satisfying the warfighter’s need for a portable identity and the ability to share contact information between organizations.

1.2.4 Enterprise Services – An enterprise service is a service, like email, that is provided in a common way across the Department and is provided by a single organization acting as the enterprise-service provider. DoD is emphasizing development and deployment of enterprise services as part of JIE that are designed to operate in deployed, disconnected, or low-bandwidth information environments.

1.2.5 Cloud Computing – DoD’s move to cloud computing presents challenges, especially in the management of thousands of shared computer servers, cybersecurity (as part of single security architecture), resilience and failover, and migration of software applications onto the cloud.

1.2.6 Data Center Consolidation – The DoD will continue to consolidate computing power by closing and consolidating data centers across the Department, while concurrently identifying existing data centers to be transitioned into JIE Core Data Centers (CDCs). Data center consolidation will be integral to facilitating the move the Department to a standardized computing architecture…

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