By Light subsidiary wins $957M Army cyber training contract

A subsidiary of By Light Professional IT Services has won a potential eight-year, $957.7 million contract to help the Army develop and maintain a new cyber training environment.

Cole Engineering Services Inc. will work with the Army on creating a platform to train service personnel in cyber operations, the Defense Department said in its Tuesday awards digest.

The Army received five bids for the firm-fixed-price contract that also covers blue team support, training content, and overall sustainment of the training system architecture.

By Light acquired Cole in 2019 to gain more capability in developing simulation-based systems for military missions and interoperable architectures for engineering and training environments.

In its desired end state, the future Persistent Cyber Training Environment will be based in a cloud computing environment and use integrated virtual machines to connect the cyber and test ranges into a more collective training network.

The Cyber Trident contract (Cyber Training, Readiness, Integration, Delivery and Enterprise Technology) for building that environment also calls for more capability in event planning, post-action reviews, environment creation and replication, and rapid software fielding.