DOD NIWC Pacific Solicitation: Engineering and Support Services for Consolidated Afloat

The Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Systems Center, Pacific (NIWC Pacific), intends to issue Request for Proposal (RFP) No. N66001-24-R-0022 for Engineering and Support Services for Consolidated Afloat Network and Enterprise Services (CANES) Programs. NIWC Pacific has identified a requirement for engineering, technical and programmatic services for networking, communication, and computer systems, and associated certification and information assurance for developments, current operations and planned upgrades to support Program Management Warfare (PMW) 160 Tactical Networks.

The Tactical Compute Sector, consisting of the Tactical Compute Networks Infrastructure & Integration Code 55131, Tactical Computing Cloud Infrastructure, Code 55132, and the Tactical Compute Networks Integration and Test Code 55133 at Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific (NIWC Pacific) have identified a requirement for engineering, technical and programmatic services for networking, communication, and computer systems, and associated certification and information assurance for developments, current operations and planned upgrades to support Program Management Warfare (PMW) 160 Tactical Networks. The networking, communication and computer systems described and referred to in this Performance Work Statement (PWS) are specialized tactical systems fielded through various Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) Programs of Record (POR) baselines or variants, that enable Command and Control (C2) in naval, joint, coalition operations, providing the gateway to achieving Information Warfare Dominance in the cyberspace domain.

Under NIWC Pacific Transport and Computing Infrastructure (TCI) Portfolio construct, NIWC Pacific Codes 55131, 55132, and 55133 anticipate work that will include the Ashore, Afloat, Subsurface, Airborne, Mobile, and Joint domains with specific technologies such as network design and development, network monitoring, management and operations, common computing environment, infrastructure with associated hardware and software components, cloud computing, ashore and afloat data centers and server hosting environments, consolidated network enterprise services, wireless networking, cybersecurity engineering, software engineering and automation, and tactical and satellite communications. Transformation of capabilities-based portfolio into a networked and computer infrastructure enables Information Warfare Dominance through Navy and Joint net-centric operations. Aligned with Program Executive Office (PEO) AC4I Master Plan, three tenets guide the transition to a net-centric infrastructure:

Mission-centered (Mission): The TCI portfolio of systems is evolving to support the Navy’s focus on cross functional mission execution in accordance with Naval Operation Concept for Joint Operations and the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Information Dominance Vision. Careful consideration is being given to approved and evolving mission threads in order to validate the relevance of the portfolio over time. Key operational threads include: Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), Close Air Support (CAS), Commander Joint Task Force (CJTF), Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR): Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, Dissemination (TCPED), Joint Force Maritime Component Commander (JFMCC), Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), Maritime Interdiction (MI)/Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW), Navy Networking Environment (NNE), and Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD). The end objective is to deliver capabilities and services that are available upon demand and integrated in the context of the mission(s) to be executed, with the infrastructure supporting all mission applications being nearly transparent to the war fighter.

Standards-compliant (Technical): The transition is based on a standards-based open architecture that shall readily adapt to the incorporation of future technologies, shall facilitate the retirement of legacy capabilities, and shall reduce the facilities required to house legacy capabilities, resulting in significant savings in the long term. Furthermore, adherence to standards contained within the DoD Information Technology Standards Repository (DISR) (https://disronline.disa.mil) and the Net-Centric Enterprise Solutions for Interoperability (NESI) (http://nesipublic.spawar.navy.mil) shall enable the development of interoperable net-centric capabilities. Ongoing standards collaboration with the Intelligence Community (IC) is critical to promoting data interoperability between DoD and IC systems through the implementation of shared cloud architectures and associated standards. Finally, commercial standards and best practices, such as those being developed by American National Standard Institute (ANSI) under the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (http://www.ncoic.org/), shall be leveraged to guide the technical implementation of DoD’s net-centric and data-centric capabilities.

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