Missile Defense Agency IL5 & IL6 Cloud

Background
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is focused on delivering missile defense capabilities to the warfighter. This contract pertains to the IL5 and IL6 cloud services that are critical for MDA's operations, ensuring compliance with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) security standards for handling sensitive government data.

The agency has been provisioning cloud services in Microsoft's IL5 and IL6 environments for the past three years, which has included extending existing networks to the Microsoft platform.

Work Details
The contract encompasses multiple IL5 and IL6 workloads including:

- model-based systems engineering
- Product Lifecycle Management
- requirements management
- Developer Security Operations (DevSecOps)
- modeling and simulation
- flight and ground test planning
- artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML)
- supporting services
- Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
- Computer Network Defense (CND) security measures.

MDA requires seamless integration of these cloud services with existing systems to ensure uninterrupted service delivery. Specific offerings include Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Express Route, Azure Virtual Desktops, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Managed SQL Instance, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Virtual Private Network Gateway.

Place of Performance
The services will be performed within the Microsoft cloud environments that meet the IL5 and IL6 standards.