The Transportation Security Administration is looking to get leaner and more agile in its IT development and delivery, issuing a request for information on how it can leverage commercial products to bolster its "cloud first" and "mobile first" strategies.

The Office of Information Technology Customer Engagement and Development Division (CEDD) is looking for a consultant to analyze its IT architecture and make recommendations about the best methods for moving applications — and future development — into a cloud environment.

The RFI is specifically seeking information on companies that can deliver products and support as-a-service, using agile and open source methods.

  1. Describe your ability and experience to create a framework and/or establish a roadmap for application re-architecture and application engineering/re-engineering for software development utilizing industry best practices;
  2. Describe your ability and experience to support the implementation or transformation of XaaS (anything-as-a-service) with continuous integration/continuous delivery capability for software development utilizing industry best practices while delivering modernized and secured state-of-the-art systems to meet the needs of customers;
  3. Describe your ability and experience in understanding and supporting application implementation or transformation with agile software development and utilizing industry best practices while delivering modernized and secured state-of-the-art systems to meet the needs of customers;
  4. Describe your ability and experience to develop and migrate applications to an open source solution utilizing industry best practices while delivering modernized and secured state-of-the-art systems to meet the needs of customers;
  5. Describe your ability and experience to simplify any technology stack utilizing industry best practices while delivering modernized and secured state-of-the-art systems to meet the needs of customers;
  6. Describe your ability and experience to reduce application footprint utilizing industry best practices while delivering modernized and secured state-of-the-art systems to meet the needs of customers;
  7. Describe your ability and experience to evaluate and document the current application architecture to provide an "as is" view, showing business, data, application and technology domains (and interfaces and dependencies within). This information would be used as a baseline for providing "to be" views; and
  8. Describe your ability and experience to migrate or configure cloud environments utilizing industry best practices while delivering modernized state-of-the-art systems to meet the needs of customers.

Responses should be less than 10 pages and must be submitted by noon on Dec. 1.

Aaron Boyd is an awarding-winning journalist currently serving as editor of Federal Times — a Washington, D.C. institution covering federal workforce and contracting for more than 50 years — and Fifth Domain — a news and information hub focused on cybersecurity and cyberwar from a civilian, military and international perspective.

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