Booz Allen Hamilton has won a follow-on production other transaction authority agreement to deploy Thunderdome, the Defense Information Systems Agency’s zero trust network access and application security architecture.
Under this contract, Booz Allen will help to move DISA, the Fourth Estate and its mission partners to a zero trust architecture.
“The at-scale production of Thunderdome will be a critical step toward moving DoD forward in its zero-trust journey,” said Kelly Rozumalski, a senior vice president leading Booz Allen’s National Cyber defense business.
The single-award contract has a 1-year base period of performance, with four 1-year option periods.
Booz Allen will implement and operate Thunderdome’s zero trust network access and application security architecture, which will strengthen the Defense Department’s networks.
“Our team successfully demonstrated the use of commercial technologies to help meet many of DoD’s zero-trust implementation goals, and our internal zero-trust investments helped accelerate our ability to bring innovative solutions to complex challenges,” Rozumalski said. “This agreement further establishes Booz Allen as the premier zero-trust service provider to federal agencies.”
In January 2022, Booz Allen was awarded an OTA to execute Thunderdome prototype. This current award follows the firm’s delivery of the Thunderdome prototype earlier this year.
During the prototype process, DISA onboarded over 1,800 users to Thunderdome and implemented conditional access for remote and on-premise users. Booz Allen achieved an ATO for Thunderdome on DISA’s unclassified and classified network.
“At-scale adoption of Thunderdome is a huge step toward zero trust and, ultimately, mitigating malicious activity,” said Chris Pymm, DISA’s Thunderdome portfolio manager. “The success of the prototype proved that commercial-off-the-shelf technologies can be integrated effectively to accelerate zero trust within DoD. Not only did Thunderdome’s prototype improve security in evaluated operational use cases, it also added efficiency to pilot users across the DoD Information Network.”