Reston, Virginia-based Blue Canopy announced Oct. 14 that it won a piece of the potentially $6 billion pie that is the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Enhanced Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise contract, a vehicle providing the Defense Department and intelligence community with IT products and services.
Blue Canopy, which specializes in big data analytics and other core areas for E-SITE, is one of 50 prime contract winners for E-SITE. The E-SITE contract was first awarded last summer and is a follow-on to the previous Solutions for IT Enterprise (SITE) contract that expired last May.
“This is the enhanced version of SITE. It establishes the acquisition framework for delivering the full scope of IT services and capabilities to support DIA, the combatant commands, the military services, intelligence needs and partner agencies – all worldwide missions across the intelligence community,” James Kudla, DIA public affairs officer, said in July.
SITE was established before the intelligence community (IC) began moving in on the IC IT Environment, or ICITE, the IC’s push toward centralized and streamlined enterprise IT services. As a result, E-SITE “is directed toward improving integration and information-sharing, and gaining efficiencies in information-safeguarding through a common IT approach,” Kudla said.
In other words, E-SITE will be a major vehicle for providing equipment and services for ICITE.
Exactly how that will happen remains to be seen – no task orders have been issued under E-SITE pending the resolution of a pair protests to the contract award, a DIA source said. According to the Government Accountability Office, four protests to E-SITE were resolved in August – three were dismissed and one was withdrawn.
Shortly after taking the helm at DIA, LtGen Vincent Stewart, DIA director, said shortly after taking DIA’s helm that his agency is committed to leading on ICITE.
“We are absolutely 100 percent committed to ICITE,” Stewart said in July at a dinner hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance in Arlington, Virginia.
