FY26 Request for Information, Hardware for Network

The contractor shall provide a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Network Intrusion Detection Protection System, including software licenses, implementation services, configuration and integration, documentation, training, and ongoing support and maintenance. The solution must support deployment models including inline (active prevention) and out-of-band (passive detection) architectures, and integrate with existing network infrastructure components such as firewalls, packet brokers, and cloud networking constructs. The solution must provide network visibility and monitoring, intrusion detection and prevention, advanced threat detection, encrypted traffic analysis, integration with the enterprise ecosystem (SIEM, SOAR, UEBA), automation and orchestration, logging and compliance, scalability and performance, management and administration, deployment and migration, and CI/CD and detection-as-code capabilities.