The Army Contracting Command is seeking a contractor to help support the Cyber Battle Lab (CBL) at Fort Gordon, Ga, according to a solicitation released over the weekend.
The Network Battle Lab is transitioning to the Cyber Battle Lab with initial operating capability (IOC) planned for October 2015, the solicitation said. The Network Battle Lab is an experimental facility that conducts “on-going research, analysis and experimentation which support the definition of new Future concepts and technologies,” the lab’s web site said.
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The Network Battle Lab focused on experimentation to support the network, but the Cyber Battle Lab “will now add experimentation to support all areas of Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) to include Cyberspace Operations (CO), Electronic Warfare (EW) and Spectrum Management Operations,” the solicitation posted to FedBizOpps said.
The lab is part of the Army’s Cyber Center of Excellence at Fort Gordon, where Army Cyber Command is also located.
The contractor is to support the battle lab mission through “Live Experimentation (LE), Modeling and Simulation (M&S), Regional Hub Node–Experimentation (RHN-E), and the Battle Lab Collaborative Simulation Environment (BLCSE). The CBL Experimentation Support contract will provide results in the form of experiments, assessments, analyses and network support that will validate proposed new technical solutions to resolve known DOTMLPF-P capability gaps within the CO and EW force modernization lines of effort,” the solicitation said.
The government intends the award to be a single award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract with a period of performance running from Sept. 1, 2015–March 31, 2020.