The Department of Energy has issued a request for information on “innovative approaches” for information technology at the Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico.
This ranges from workaday software to cyber security solutions for the office that oversees agency’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), according to a notice published Thursday on a federal procurement website.
“Special consideration should be given to advanced support to mobile, remote and telework operations for an organization of roughly 130 staff and contractors,” according to the notice.
Comments are due by 6 p.m. Eastern Time on May 31 to Wendy Bauer a contracting officer at the DOE Carlsbad field office.
Located southeast of Carlsbad, WIPP is the nation’s only deep geologic long-lived radioactive waste repository for defense-related transuranic waste.
A WIPP strategic plan published more than two years ago called for, among other things, replacing the out-of-date information technology system at the site and in the process improving cyber security. The current system is more than 20 years old.