To ensure mission success, OIS requires Contractor support to define, develop, and implement the various ESA’s required to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Veteran and VA information.
The support provided shall help VA create, discover, architect (emphazing the importance of aligning enterprise architecture requirements to security architecture.), document, and assess cybersecurity solutions that will ensure Veteran and VA information will not be subject to unacceptable risk when new technologies and solutions are employed by VA.
The expertise needed to satisfy this requirement will span a broad range of technologies, technical challenges and user experience to include: mobile and medical devices, cloud ecosystem, software defined networks, enterprise architecture; application testing and deployment, assess, and define business processes, and systems design.
The Contractor shall provide ESA technical support services to include the development and maintenance of all levels. (Level 1 – Business, Level II – Organization, and Level III – System). ESA that it is aligned, supports and enables the VA ESA strategy; the application and use of the VA ESA by VA’s IT modernization initiatives and information systems; and the use of ESA processes, methodologies and tools to support development, maintenance, application and use of the VA ESA.
The Contractor shall provide multi-domain support to address VA’s scope, size and complexity, including enterprise architecture, emerging technologies, networks, mobile, in specialize areas like healthcare, specialized medical devices, cybersecurity, IT Modernization, large scale architecture.
The Contractor shall provide support which demonstrates specialized technical and cybersecurity expertise of the new technologies that VA is introduces; including merging of Electronic Health Records (EHR), cloud computing, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), specialize networks (i.e. software and security perimeter and defined networks) Internet of Things (IoT), analytic ecosystems, and medical devices.
