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- W912DY-19-R-0001
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This document provides an overview of a solicitation for the High Performance Computing Modernization Program Integrated Technical Services - Restricted II contract. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering and Support Center will issue the solicitation in November 2018 to obtain technical services supporting the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program. The services will support Defense Research and Engineering Network/Secure Defense Research and Engineering Network users through management of five Supercomputing Resource Centers and associated networks. The single-award task order contract has a five-year ordering period and will issue both firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee task orders. This is a 100% small business set-aside solicitation within NAICS code 541513 with a size standard of $27.5 million. Offerors must register in the System for Award Management to be eligible for award. The proposal due date will be specified in the November 2018 solicitation.
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Distribution A. Approved for Public Release; distribution is unlimited; July 2018
Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) Overview
DREN Overview
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DREN Mission & Vision
MISSION
VISION
Support the RDT&E and Acquisition Engineering community anytime, anywhere with a versatile, low-latency, high-throughput communications network
Remove the impact of distance to allow the RDT&E and Acquisition Engineering mission to be accomplished by geographically-dispersed proponents, each providing unique contributions to innovations resulting in Warfighter support
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Networking Defense Research & Engineering Network (DREN) DoD’s premier RDT&E network – focused on S&T and T&E – provides separation from Warfighting networks
High-bandwidth, low-latency, full-service network
Connects DoD high performance computing (HPC) centers and users
Secret-level network overlay on DREN backbone (SDREN)
DREN III provides 50 Mbps to 40 Gbps service to DoD sites; across a 100 Gbps backbone
Fully supports IPv6 & Multicast Platform for next-generation network protocol and security/ information assurance research
One component of the DoD Information Networks– RDT&E companion to NIPRNet/SIPRNet
50 Mbps 1 Gbps
Site Speeds Backbone
40 Gbps 100 Gbps
DSRC
0 Mbps
1-250 Mbps
250-500 Mbps
500-1,000 Mbps
1,000-2,500 Mbps
2,500-40,000 Mbps 40,000 + Mbps
Network # of Sites
DREN 180
SDREN 80
Aggregate BW: 354.8 Gbps
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DREN Use Cases
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DREN History
• DREN 0 (1995-1997)
– Government-owned
– T1s and T3s
– Government-operated routers
– Native Internet Protocol (IP)
– Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM) test bed
– DISA-supported Network
Operations Center (NOC)
• DREN I (1997-2002)
– AT&T contract (5-year)
– Vendor-operated equipment
– OC-12 (13 x DREN 0)
– ATM (native)
– IP over ATM
– IPv6 test bed over ATM
– Vendor-supported NOC
• DREN II (2002-2012)
– Verizon contract (10-year)
– Vendor-operated routers
– IPv4 and ATM over Multi-Protocol Label
Switching (MPLS)
– 10 Gig (16 x DREN 1)
– IPv6 “when commercially available”
– IPSEC (encryption) added
– VPLS (Ethernet) added
• DREN III (2012-2022)
– CenturyLink contract (10-year)
– Vendor-operated switch/routers
– 100-Gig (10 x DREN 2)
– IPv6 with support for legacy IPv4
– IP and Ethernet Services
– Optical Services (OWS, OTN, Alien Waves)
– No ATM
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Los Angeles, CA
Ashburn, VA
Honolulu, HI
San Jose, CA
Seattle, WA
Chicago, IL
Internet Peering Locations
Internet access is monitored and firewalled
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SDREN Overview SDREN is a classified network overlay on the DREN backbone
– A DREN Service Delivery Point (SDP) is a pre-requisite for SDREN service
SDREN Characteristics
– Common Secret key material on NSA-approved Type-1 encryptors
– Currently a routed layer-3 network
– Redesign in-process to implement as a switched layer-2 network
– Consists of 80 active enclaves
Use Cases
– Access to classified High Performance Computing (HPC) systems
– Access to classified Test and Evaluation (T&E) events
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DREN Security Governance Multi-tiered approach to ensuring a productive, secure, and trustworthy environment for the RDT&E and Acquisition Engineering (AE) communities
– Cybersecurity investments to protect and defend the DREN and SDREN cyber terrain
– Security with network performance
DREN follows DoD Cybersecurity directives and processes
– DREN is accredited under the Risk Management Framework (RMF)
Cybersecurity is coordinated with USCYBERCOM and supported by a Tier II Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP)
| Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) Overview� |
| DREN Mission & Vision |
| Networking�Defense Research & Engineering Network (DREN) |
| DREN Use Cases |
| DREN History |
| Internet Peering Locations |
| SDREN Overview |
| DREN Security Governance |
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