Leidos is Selected for DISA’s $11.5. Billion Defense Enclave Services Contract
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) announced on February 28th that it had selected Reston, Virginia-based Leidos, Inc., for its Defense Enclave Services (DES) four-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, with a ceiling value of $11.5 billion.
Under the effort, Leidos will manage and operate the DES network architecture and provide standardized, responsive and cost-effective information technology (IT) services to improve mission value and network user experience, the agency known as DISA said. In addition, Leidos will be responsible for executing the network optimization and migration actions onto the new optimized network, the Department of Defense Network (DoDNet 2.0). The overall goals are to improve security, network availability and reliability for DoD’s 22 worldwide Fourth Estate agencies, which are combat support or field agencies such as the Defense Acquisition University, the Defense Health Agency and the Defense Logistics Agency, among others.
The award is part of DISA’s effort under its Fourth Estate Network Optimization Program, a comprehensive, information technology advancement effort that runs through fiscal year 2025. In 2019, then-Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist designated DISA to lead the effort to optimize networks and services as part of DOD’s larger IT reform. The program is consolidating the Fourth Estate’s various commodity or common IT networks under a single service provider, DISA and evolves the existing DISANet into the developing DoDNet 2.0. Along with consolidating 13 Fourth Estate networks and optimizing 27 networks, the agency also is merging 30 help desks into a single service, providing a better user experience, greater efficiency and gains in economies of scale.
Leidos will assist with this unification of common use information technology systems, personnel, functions and program elements, as well as provide technical expertise as needed.
“DES will provide integrated, standardized and cost-effective IT services while improving security, network availability, and reliability for the 22 [organizations] within the Fourth Estate. DISA will leverage the DES contract to manage, operate and support the network architecture,” said Don Means Jr., director of DISA’s Operations and Infrastructure Center.
After the initial contract period ends on February 27, 2026, DISA has three, two-year optional extensions, which, if exercised, would bring the contract performance to February 27, 2032.
The agency reported that the contact selection was based on a full and open competition that required all offerors to subcontract at least 25 percent of the work to small businesses. “Leidos’ proposal exceeded this minimum,” a DISA spokesperson indicated
