Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) Full Deployment (FD) Production

The Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR), in support of the Program Executive Office
for Command Control, Communications and Computers (PEO C4I) Program Manager, Warfare (PMW) 160,
Tactical Networks, has issued a Full and Open competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) N00039-22-R-9100
for the procurement of the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) Full
Deployment (FD) production requirement.

CANES is the Navy's Program of Record (POR) that consolidates and replaces existing afloat networks
providing the necessary infrastructure for applications, systems and services required to dominate the
cyber warfare tactical domain. CANES represents a key aspect of the Navy's modernization planning by
upgrading cybersecurity, command and control, communications and intelligence systems afloat, and by
replacing unaffordable and obsolete networks. The primary goals of the CANES program are to: 1) Provide
a secure afloat network required for Naval and Joint Operations; 2) Consolidate and reduce the number of
afloat networks through the use of Common Computing Environment and mature cross domain
technologies; 3) Reduce the infrastructure footprint and associated Logistics, Sustainment, and Training
costs; and 4) Increase reliability, security, interoperability and application hosting to meet current and
projected Warfighter requirements.

The CANES procurement will be conducted under full and open competition. The Government intends to
issue a Multiple Award Contract (MAC) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The MAC
IDIQ contract will be an ordering period of ten (10) years. The Government will utilize a Firm Fixed Price
(FFP) CLIN structure for: 1) CANES Production Units for afloat unit, force, and submarine platforms, 2)
Software – Initial, 3) Software - Renewals and Maintenance, 4) Spares and System Components, and 5)
Lab Equipment.

This is a Request for Proposal and is not be to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue
a contract. The Government will not pay for any effort expended in response to this notice. Any
information submitted in response to the RFP will become property of the U.S. Government. All
questions/comments concerning this RFP are to be submitted in writing to Contracting Officer, Susana L.
Wiker, email address at Susana.L.Wiker.civ@us.navy.mil and Contracting Officer, Stephen R. Beckner,
email address at Stephen.R.Beckner.civ@us.navy.mil.

Future information, if released, will be provided on the System for Award Management at
https://www.sam.gov/ and NAVWAR E-Commerce Central website at https://e-
commerce.sscno.nmci.navy.mil/. Interested parties are responsible for monitoring these sites for
additional information pertaining to this RFP.