
DISA has released the final Request for Proposals for its potential 10-year, $11.7 billion single vendor contract to consolidate the Pentagon’s ‘Fourth Estate’s’ network capabilities. A contract award for the Defense Enclave Services program is slated for the first quarter of fiscal year 2022. “DES will provide integrated, standardized and cost-effective IT services, while improving security, network availability and reliability for 22 [Department of Defense Field Activities] within the Fourth Estate. The DES effort will establish the modern infrastructure foundation…