Notice ID: N62285250000
Background. The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is the sole provider of Precise Time and Astrometry (PTA) data products to the DoD under Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction (CJCSI) 4650.01H and DoD Instruction (DoDI) 4650.06. PTA data products include Precise Time (PT) and time dissemination tools, Celestial Reference Frame (CRF) data products and applications, and Earth Orientation Parameters (EOPs). These products are critical to navigation for any DoD system, and, most importantly, the United States Global Positioning System (GPS). The security and integrity of the transport systems from which these systems disseminate data is paramount, requiring 24/7 monitoring, life cycle replacement, and regular sustainment activities.
The purpose of this contract is to obtain the infrastructure and services required to build and sustain security services that ensure the integrity and availability of PTA Enterprise systems. In addition to the hardware and software required for the security infrastructure, the services requested herein will require timing transport engineers, observatory control engineers, cyber security operators, and project specialists’ experts to provide technical support, cyber monitoring, and operations and maintenance support for PTA dissemination systems.
The Contractor shall provide infrastructure and manpower for support in the disciplines of transport engineering, cyber security, cyber engineering, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) management, instrumentation engineering, and computer sciences. Work shall be in accordance with tasks such as the following as ordered on individual task orders for specified PTA research, engineering or operations and maintenance projects.
Technical Services Requirements
- Implement, operate and maintain PTA transport systems capable of meeting the requirements in Section 3.2.
- Collect, develop, and analyze transport and SCADA data for cyber security and readiness with hardware meeting the requirements outlined in Section 3.3. Supply the necessary skillsets to monitor and interpret the data …
Transport Maintenance and Sustainment Requirements
- The system maintenance and sustainment shall ensure availability greater than 99.999%
- The system maintenance and sustainment activities shall ensure data backup capability and capability to recover backed up data
- The system maintenance and sustainment shall include cyber and resource …
Security Monitoring Hardware Requirements
- Security monitoring system shall be mobile with dimensions no greater than 24 x 14 x 9 inches
- Security monitoring system shall be EMP protected
- Security monitoring system shall be capable of modeling system architecture …
The period of performance for this requirement will be one (1) base period 06 April 2026 through 05 April 2027 and four (4) option periods. The proposed procurement is a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract.
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