Project Fangorn - Request for Solutions

Background
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is the combat support agency for the Department of Defense (DoD), responsible for conducting operations for the DoD information network (DODIN) to enhance lethality across all warfighting domains in defense of the United States.

DISA aims to transform and integrate its capabilities to support the DoD effectively, focusing on innovative and emerging technologies. The DISA Hosting and Compute (HaC) directorate, known as DISA J-9, is leading a transformation in delivering hosting and compute solutions across the DoD, particularly by adopting cloud technologies.

DISA seeks partnerships with industry leaders to develop solutions that are hybrid, multi-cloud, and distributed cloud environments. The goal of this solicitation is to develop a prototype solution titled Project Fangorn that modernizes IBM z environments within DISA data centers.

Work Details
The contract involves developing a prototype solution that integrates hardware and software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure. Key tasks include:
1. Creating an integrated hardware and SaaS infrastructure supporting emerging technologies like mainframe CPU and storage.
2. Developing a single SaaS solution for sustaining applications based on z/OS, zVM, Linux on z, and container technologies with best practices for cost-effectiveness and performance.
3. Implementing core functionalities for z/OS including AI Ops tools, API lifecycle management, application performance tuning, monitoring utilities, automated testing tools, and more.
4. Provisioning Linux on z Operating Environments with functionalities such as account management, automation/scheduler capabilities, monitoring systems, and multi-factor authentication.
5. Supporting container orchestration with features like chargeback utility and security management.
6. Hosting the prototype on-premises in standardized stacks within DISA datacenters with customizable control planes for managing assets across environments including commercial cloud services.
7. Ensuring multi-tenancy support with customer segmentation and encrypted data privacy.
8. Implementing utility-based billing for capacity scaling based on usage while ensuring automated scalability of IBM z mainframe hardware.

Place of Performance
The contract will be performed at DISA data centers located in both CONUS (Continental United States) and OCONUS (Outside Continental United States) locations.