The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) plans to upgrade critical infrastructure at its data center in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
DISA is planning to replace Computer Room Air Handlers (CRAH) units, Power Distribution Units, remote distribution cabinets, and other infrastructure that "have reached their end of life."
The agency provides information technology and communications support to the President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, and the military services.
Offers for the contract on Sam.gov are open until August 30, 2024. Further details about the development are only available via a document access request on the government procurement portal.
2017 DISA documents show that the agency has dramatically cut down the number of data centers it operates to 10 - from 194 sites in 1990.
Alongside the Mechanicsburg data center at the Naval Support Activity supply depot, DISA operates data centers in Columbus, Montgomery, San Antonio, Ogden, Oklahoma City, and St. Louis - as well as facilities in Europe and Bahrain.
In April, DISA selected HPE's GreenLake service to develop a Distributed Hybrid Multi-Cloud (DHMC) prototype.
