Broadcom picked up yet another multimillion-dollar government contract for VMware after the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded a $970 million deal to Carahsoft and Broadcom to consolidate software contracts.
The five-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) will see Carahsoft, an authorized Broadcom distributor, provide uniform pricing and cost transparency for private cloud infrastructure and other Broadcom solutions to multiple agencies of the Department of Defense (DOD), including DISA, the Air Force, and Space Force.
Included in the deal is access to VMware’s flagship Cloud Foundation platform (VFC), along with VMware vDefend and Avi Load Balancer to provide lateral security across private cloud workloads.
With the select Broadcom offerings, the pair claim defense agencies can “operationalize zero trust and maintain decision superiority by modernizing data center workloads, accelerating trusted AI, and extending secure, real-time intelligence to the tactical edge.”
“By consolidating licensing, simplifying procurement, and delivering a modern private cloud, we are helping the [DOD] and the agencies it serves to accelerate secure digital transformation at scale,” Regan McGrath, Broadcom’s president for the Americas, explained. “This agreement ensures mission-ready performance, consistent governance, and a foundation capable of supporting the next generation of AI-enabled defense capabilities.”
This latest deal will see the development of Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) for Broadcom’s offerings, establishing a “common blueprint for federal agencies” to simplify VCF implementation.
The deal marks Broadcom’s second with the U.S. government this year after it secured a OneGov agreement in January. OneGov gives firms a government-wide procurement deal, enabling them to sell solutions across various federal agencies via sizable discounts.
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