NETCENTS II

The goal of the NETCENTS 2 initiative is to support missions that require innovative communications, information services, solutions, and products for the right information, in the right format, to the right place, at the right time – efficient in peace…effective in war; ensuring success across the spectrum of operations (e.g., Iraq and Afghanistan, Global War On Terrorism, as well as support functions). Department of Defense (DoD) customers work in transit, static, and deployed locations throughout the world. Information Technology is combined with joint and interagency assets and capabilities from land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace components, as well as coalition and allied capabilities, to create an interoperable force capability.

This contract will provide a wide range of services and solutions covering existing legacy infrastructure, networks, systems and operations such as as well as emerging requirements based on the AF Chief Information Officer’s (CIO’s) SOA construct found in the SOA Playbook. The contracts will provide Network-Centric Information Technology, Networking, and Security, Voice, Video and Data Communications, system solutions and services to satisfy the Combat Support (CS), Command and Control (C2), and Intelligence Reconnaissance and Surveillance (ISR) Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) requirements worldwide. This NetOps contract will provide users the capabilities to find, access, collaborate, fuse, display, manage, and store information on the Department of Defense (DoD) Global Information Grid (GIG). Other services include, but are not limited to, wireless devices/capabilities, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) to include Blackberries and information intensive data applications (e.g. video-teleconferencing, imagery, modeling, simulation, streaming video, web-enabled weapon systems and applications, information management, Everything over IP (EoIP), and Voice over IP (VoIP). This contract will support the transformation of AF global-level command and control and administration of Information Technology (IT) resources from base-level Network Control Centers (NCC), MAJCOM Coordination Centers (MCCC), MAJCOM Network Operations Security Centers (NOSC), and Network Operations Divisions (NOD) and Network Security Divisions (NSD) to regionally consolidated Area Processing Capabilities (APC), Enterprise Service Units (ESU), Integrated NOSCs (I-NOSC) and Enterprise Service Desks (ESD).

Through this contract vehicle, customers can acquire network infrastructure system solutions, operations, and maintenance, as well as systems management, configuration management, and NetOps Core IT services (e.g., e-mail, storage, and directory services). System solutions shall follow disciplined System Engineering Processes and shall include, but not be limited to: establishment of the SOA Singularly Managed Infrastructure with Enterprise Level Security (SMI-ELS), including Metadata Environments (MDEs), Enclaves, Federation and Enterprise Management of the AF Architecture; Network Operations including GIG Web Content Management, GIG Enterprise Management (GEM) and GIG Network Defense (GND); and Network Infrastructure Messaging and Site Preparation and Installation services. This contract will provide NetOps services and solutions support to establish, operate, and maintain the network and SOA infrastructure required to provide netcentric capabilities and traditional network operations.