Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) is an Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) base located on Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee with Geographically Separated Units (GSUs) in White Oak , Maryland and Moffett Field, California. AEDC is an Air Force Test Center organization that provides the most advanced and largest complex of flight simulation test facilities in the world. The complex operates 58 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, space environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges and other specialized units.
The purpose of the task order is to provide Base Communications and Information Technology Services (BCITS), Network Operations (NetOps), Infrastructure, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation and transformation services and solutions to AEDC and AEDC (GSU). The services and solutions provided will support the development, acquisition, integration, test, deployment, and sustainment of all infrastructure and network operations, production, and research and development mission capabilities. The proposed solutions shall be in compliance with all applicable existing Department of Defense (DoD), Air Force (AF), and Intelligence Communities (IC) standardization and interoperability policies. Technology refreshment and system evolution within this task order shall track proven, accepted, and available leading edge technology within industry.
The task order supports all areas within AEDC mission requirements, the Department of Defense Information Network (DoDIN) architecture, Defense Information Infrastructure (DII), IC information sharing environments, AF, and defense communications systems infrastructure for computer and telecommunications network mission areas. Solutions and services provided under this task order shall help AEDC, the AF, DoD and IC achieve information superiority as called for in Joint Vision 2020 and in Aeronautical and Space Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) environments that will promote adherence to the Systems Engineering Process (SEP) as specified in the DoD 5000-series publications. This task order is to provide a full range of reasonably priced world-class information technology services and solutions to support the full spectrum of netcentric operations and missions.
The task order shall provide network-centric information technology, networking, and security, voice, video and data communications, information and applications management, system solutions services as well as emerging requirements based on the AF Chief Information Officer’s (CIO’s) SOA construct to satisfy all AEDC requirements. This task order shall provide users the capabilities to find, access, collaborate, fuse, display, manage, and store information on the DoD.
DoDIN. Services provided include Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS), National Security Systems (NSS), intelligence data handling equipment, Command and Control (C2) equipment, Local Area Networks (LAN), Wide Area Networks (WAN), Wireless LAN (WLAN), secure and non-secure video, voice and data systems, and other mission equipment. All efforts supported under the task order shall be provided in accordance with AF, DoD, or DoD Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS), and National Security Agency (NSA) standards as applicable to the task order. Efforts under this task order shall support industry best practices when not prescribed by aforementioned standards.
Through the task order, customers can acquire network infrastructure system solutions operations, and maintenance, as well as systems management, configuration management, base communications core Information Technology (IT) services and specialized RDT&E demands. System solutions shall follow disciplined system engineering processes and shall include: 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 DoDIN web content management, DoDIN Enterprise Management (DEM) and DoDIN Network Defense (DND); and network infrastructure messaging and site preparation and installation services. This task order shall provide standard base communications services and solutions support to establish, operate, and maintain all networks and SOA infrastructure required to provide netcentric capabilities and traditional network operations.
