JA AMD01 Redacted

JUSTIFICATION FOR EXCEPTION TO

FAIR OPPORTUNITY OR BRAND NAME

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
Part 16.5 Justification & Approval (J&A)
CSS Tracking Number: 852675771
Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request: F3LNPA6226GC01 Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) Contract Number: HC105023D0005 Procurement Title: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) & USNORTHCOM United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)
Estimated Value:
Regulatory Authority: FAR 16.507-6(b)(2)
J&A Exception to Fair Opportunity Number: Not Applicable

1. REQUIRING AGENCY AND CONTRACTING ACTIVITY:

Requiring Agency: Department of War (DoW) / NORAD and USNORTHCOM Contracting Activity: Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) / Cloud Capabilities Section (PS8511)

2. NATURE/DESCRIPTION OF ACTION(S):

Type of Action: New Contract
Type of Contract: Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP)
AMD01: This amendment increased the original J&A estimated value by This
increase is due to the number of Pro-Serve units required to assist in the establishment of the necessary unclassified and classified environments. While the IGCE calculated the Support CLINs, the dollar amounts included a lower amount of units than what was proposed.
This action is to issue a FFP Task Order (TO) against the JWCC Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract for NORAD & USNORTHCOM. This TO will be issued directly to Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS).

3. DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES:

The requirement will provide commercial cloud services at a total estimated cost of for base period of 1 year with one 1-year option period.. This will allow the DoW to meet the following agency need: NORAD and NORTHCOM require the establishment of a multi-

NORAD & USNORTHCOM AMD01

classification cloud environment operating at both Impact Level 4/5 (IL4/IL5) and IL6 with initial operational capability within six months of award.

The environment must provide a cloud-based Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP) capability to secure and route all network traffic. It will host a platform for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) development, a scalable service for Intelligence, Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) video ingestion, a cross-domain solution for secure data transfer between classification levels, and a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) that leverages existing enterprise licensing agreements.

4. IDENTIFICATION OF EXCEPTION TO FAIR OPPORTUNITY: