HPE, Aruba & Juniper IT Procurement for NAS Patuxent River

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, located on the Chesapeake Bay in Lexington Park, St. Mary's County, Maryland, is the U.S. Navy's premier center for naval aviation research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E). It hosts the headquarters of Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), Naval Test Wing Atlantic, and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. Pax River is where new and modernized aircraft, avionics, sensors, and weapons systems are flight-tested and certified for fleet use.

This test-and-evaluation mission generates extraordinary IT demands. Flight-test campaigns produce massive telemetry and sensor datasets that must be captured, processed, stored, and analyzed quickly and securely. Engineering, modeling and simulation, and digital-engineering workloads call for high-performance compute, fast all-flash storage, and high-throughput networking inside accredited data centers. At the same time, the installation runs as a working air station with administrative networks, hangar and flightline connectivity, and a large workforce of military, civilian, and contractor personnel across a sprawling campus.

For procurement professionals, this means a steady requirement for refreshing servers, storage arrays, switches, wireless, and routing platforms that meet federal supply-chain, cybersecurity, and TAA requirements. Uniqcli helps Pax River buyers map those requirements to HPE ProLiant and Alletra, Aruba networking, and Juniper Networking solutions, delivered through compliant federal contract vehicles with the documentation acquisition teams need.