AFLCMC Data Operations Commercial Solutions Opening

Sources Sought from the Department of the Air Force. Due Feb 8, 2028, 11:59 PM (UTC-5), 478 days left.

Official notice and attachments

Description

AFLCMC Data Operations CSO 1.0 Overview This Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) is intended to be a streamlined vehicle to allow for the establishment of a modern Data Operations (DataOps) solution supporting a variety of critical national security systems. This CSO authority is established under section 803 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 (Pub.

L. 117-81) and Class Deviation 2022-O0007. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) programs require the utilization and leveraging of the latest technology advances from a large variety of prospective Contractors. AFLCMC invites innovating technical approach proposals addressing all aspects of DataOps focusing on the below objective areas.

However, these enumerated focus areas are minimum requirements, and AFLCMC is open to the identification of technologies useful for modernizing DataOps for sophisticated security and weapon systems. This requires delivering an enduring, secure, robust, efficient, responsive, agile, elastic, and extensible classified DataOps solution. This CSO will focus on existing and emerging technologies and platforms across AFLCMC, Department of the Air Force (DAF), Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community, as well as leveraging commercial markets to perform an integrated analysis of the capabilities of varying technologies that support our critical national security systems and prioritize investments over time.

The CSO may result in the award of FAR Part 12 Contracts or Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs) under 10 USC 4022, through Calls via Amendments to the CSO. The Government anticipates future Calls to be competitively solicited. These Calls will contain specific Areas of Interest, User Stories and/or Problem Statements related to program specific DataOps Focus Areas.

These specific Areas of Interest are what prospective Contractors shall focus their solutions towards. The Government reserves the right to issue separate Calls for each DataOps Focus Area or combine several Focus Areas under an individual Call. Disclaimer: No proposals or white papers are being requested at this time.

Those will be requested via Calls published under the CSO solicitation. AFLCMC is not obligated to make any awards from any publicized Call, and all awards under this CSO are explicitly subject to the availability of funds and successful negotiations. The Government is not responsible for any monies expended by any vendor prior to the issuance of any awarded contract/agreement.

AFLCMC reserves the right to modify the solicitation requirements of this CSO and each subsequent Call at its sole discretion. This CSO seeks to fund innovative technologies that propose new solutions to expand AFLCMC’s capabilities as it relates to modern DataOps Focus Areas. AFLCMC is interested in capabilities from all interested vendors to include, but not limited to, traditional defense contractors, nontraditional defense contractors, large businesses, small businesses, and research institutions (collectively referred as vendors).

It should be noted, many of the critical national security systems operate in varying classification environments, including highly classified environments – such as collateral, Sensitive Compartmentalized Information, and Special Access Program. Though some DataOps Focus Areas may require unclassified work, respondents should be aware that vendors cleared to work, or the ability to be cleared to work, in highly classified environments will be necessary for any award.

The CSO is a streamlined acquisition process that seeks to reduce acquisition timelines and acquire new, innovative solutions that vendors can bring forth to meet the stated Areas of Interest detailed in each Call. 2.0 DataOps Technology Focus Areas AFLCMC is seeking capabilities to prove out end-to-end DataOps for representative modern embedded weapon systems. The desired end-state is a DataOps capability/prototype that enables a weapon system to exploit data across the full lifecycle of an embedded weapon system (development, integration, test, deployment, operations and sustainment) across all classification levels.

An ideal partner has first-party ability to directly modify underlying commercial hyperscale and edge cloud fabric to meet the project’s requirements across all classification levels and supporting partners would be considered as enabling providers supporting specific aspects of the potential solution. Each Technology Focus Area identifies an area where prospective vendors can bring substantial value to meet the DataOps mission.

These focus areas are meant to be read expansively and are not limited to the enumerated Focus Areas. Additional Focus Areas may be included via amendments to this CSO. AFLCMC prefers to bucket several Focus Areas into singular Calls, which means vendors that can optimize several Focus Areas will be preferred.

AFLCMC requires provider(s) to deliver an innovative state-of-the-art commercial solution that innovates all or some of the following capability areas. Whether using a single vendor or using multiple vendors, AFLCMC’s intended Minimum Viable Product (MVP) should contain the following Six Foundational Attributes: 1. Hybrid Cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS: AFLCMC seeks solutions for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (Saas) that can be hosted in a hybrid cloud architecture.

For the purposes of this CSO, “hybrid cloud” is defined as: a virtual environment provided to a single customer that combines private cloud compute, storage, and services running on-premises with compute, storage, and services running in a public cloud along with the ability to move information seamlessly and transparently between them. All offerings will be templated, extensible, and elastically scalable on converged and/or hyperconverged infrastructure.

All offerings will support “bring your own ‘X’,” such that AFLCMC can re-host existing

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