The united states air force (USAF) is pursuing the acquisition of unified capabilities (UC) to satisfy department of defense user needs for categorized information (per DOD cloud security model (CSM))…

This is a $23,599,282.40 firm fixed price delivery order awarded by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to Dell Federal Systems L.P. under the General Services Administration's Information Technology Schedule 70 contract vehicle. The order is for the United States Air Force to acquire commercial cloud computing services for unclassified information technology functions, including communication, email, collaboration, office productivity, and records management. The goal is to transition the Air Force's unclassified IT services to the cloud to improve efficiency, agility, innovation, and potentially achieve cost savings. The contractor must meet FedRAMP, Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Security Model, and other security requirements to achieve an Authority to Operate at the High-High-X impact level. The contract also includes an option for the government to add a classified service environment to validate DoD Impact Level 6 controls. This order does not utilize any set-aside designations.

The united states air force (USAF) is pursuing the acquisition of unified capabilities (UC) to satisfy department of defense user needs for categorized information (per DOD cloud security model (CSM)) communication, email, collaboration services, office productivity and records management as software as a service (SAAS) from a commercial provider of cloud computing services. The primary goal of this acquisition is to explore solution and services necessary for USAF to transition their unclassified information technology services to the cloud which will result in improvements in efficiency, agility, innovation, and potential cost savings. The government believes that traditional outsourcing and system integration support is insufficiently adaptive and costly and should be replaced by commodity services with a SAAS cloud computing offering. USAF is also interested in developing the capability to support classified, CSM level 6 information as an option. The customer command vision, aligned with the DOD CIO goal for cloud computing, is to provide the most innova-tive and efficient solution for unclassified collaboration and business systems. The concept would include a mobile device, thin client device or virtual desktop, the absolute minimum internal infra-structure (e.g.: wire, switches and routers in the building) with all other network services being provided as a commod-ITY. This concept is based fully on the premise that the selection of the commodity provider is a selection of existing business system tools rather than contracting the vendor to build a one-off solution. An essential element of such a delivery is the availability of the necessary online tools to effectively execute the concept. IT is the intent to deliver services from the provider S data centers with traffic routed over government-provisioned and operated military circuits (NIPRNET). The contractor shall enable successful satisfaction of all required fedramp, DOD cloud security model (V2.1 or latest) and DOD security control requirements in order to achieve and maintain authority to operate ATO at the high-high-X system level (per cnssi 1253 and NIST SP 800-53 R4) and to support operations with CSM level 5 unclassified information. The contractor shall provide a detailed report of observations, analysis and recommendations regarding services supporting CSM level 5 unclassified information, specifically RE-garding affordability and optimization for affordability. Appendix 1 details specific elements required within the RE-port. Additionally, the government desires an option, subject to availability of funds, to add an additional service environ-ment configured for operations as a secret enclave with the objective of validating CSM level 6 controls, processes and documentation. The DOD intends to employ (and provide, if required) siprnet circuit connectivity into the pro-vider S data centers for the exercise of classified options. The current CSM for level 6 is under development, however the government is requesting bidders use the draft requirements for impact level 6 located at: http://iase.DISA.MIL/cloud_security/documents/unclass-cloudsecuritymodel_V3-0D.PDF the enclave shall support up to 10,000 users. The new service will meet industry performance standards, offer the necessary redundancy and contingency features to meet USAF needs, and provide state-of-the-art technology enhancements to improve user experience and minimize service disruption. This performance work statement (PWS) issued by USAF describes the goals expected to be achieved with regard to executing the transition of enterprise capabilities to the cloud and operation of the new service via a cloud email/unified capabilities as a service (E/UCAAS) certification, accreditation, demonstration and operations.