On October 30, the Virginia Contracting Activity, on behalf
of the Defense Intelligence Agency, posted a commercial solutions opening call
for a Large Scale Digital Forensics Evaluation Prototype. Questions are due by
12:00 p.m. Eastern on November 13. White papers are due no later than 12:00
p.m. Eastern on November 27.
With increases in storage size, proliferation of Internet of
Things, mobile devices and embedded microelectronics, DIA needs to be able to
rapidly extract process and analyze large volumes of digital media. This
includes extracting, storing, analyzing and making available to the community
multi-petabyte (PB) “dirty” data artifacts, enabling search, and follow on
analytics, including machine learning and access by external systems. “Dirty”
data means that the data contains disturbing materials. DIA is seeking a
prototype that will close this capability gap.
DIA is seeking to acquire a large scale digital forensics
evaluation prototype, which the offeror shall integrate commercial
off-the-shelf (COTS) commodity hardware and storage with a database solid-state
appliance and COTS software as a technology demonstrator for end-to-end digital
forensics analysis. The offeror shall assemble the prototype at its lab or
facility and deliver the prototype to a DIA facility in Washington District of
Columbia metropolitan area. Furthermore, the offeror shall install the
prototype at the facility. Offerors responding to this call shall satisfy all
of the following top level requirements:
- The solution shall be able to host minimum of
one (1) petabytes (PB) of forensic images and system artifacts.
- Shall utilize a solid state drive (SSD) based
database appliance that can store a minimum of 64 terabytes (TB) of data, scale
linearly and perform structured query language (SQL) queries.
- Shall include no less than ten (10) loaders on a
minimum of four (4) physical commodity servers.
- Shall be assembled in a rack enclosure without
external dependencies except for connectivity and power, which are needed
externally.
- Shall demonstrate extensible digital forensics
exploitation software extensible by the customer through development of modules
written in a non-proprietary programming language e.g. Python, C#, C++, C, etc.
- Shall benchmark each individual component and the
system in its entirety to demonstrate performance characteristics.
Full information is available here.
Source: FedBizOpps
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