Educated at War School of Kaunas and Higher Officers' Courses, Bulvičius became major of the General Staff in September 1938.

After the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union in June 1940, he created the so-called "Bulvičius group", which in 1941 evolved into the Vilnius branch of the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF).

Vilnius LAF was to lead the uprising and Bulvičius was reserved the seat of Minister of Defense in the Provisional Government of Lithuania.

[2] On 7 September 1925, after graduating from the War School of Kaunas, Bulvičius was promoted to lieutenant and assigned to the 9th Infantry Regiment in Marijampolė.

[2] In 1939, he published monograph Karinis valstybės rengimas (Preparing the State for War) based on his university lectures.

[2] The main task of Vilnius LAF was to start an uprising relying on trustworthy personnel from the liquidated Lithuanian Army at the outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

[2] The group acquired a portable radio and cyphers and established contact with Germany in hopes of receiving ammunition and arms.

[2] During February and March 1941, Bulvičius, together with K. Antanavičius and Juozas Vėbra prepared a plan for the LAF insurrection.

[8][9] During a meeting on 22 April, members of Vilnius and Kaunas LAF agreed on the composition of the Lithuanian Provisional Government in which Bulvičius was foreseen as a Minister of Defense.

Nevertheless, Lithuanian rebels engaged in shootouts with the retreating Red Army and the Germans were able to enter the city without resistance on 24 June.

[2] At 4am on 24 June, twenty wagons with more than 600 political prisoners, including Bulvičius' group, were deported deep into Russia.

[12] Seven others were sentenced to 7 to 20 years in prison,[13] and Aleksas Vainorius was acquitted (however, he was not released and died of tuberculosis in July 1942).

[14] A training centre of the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces is named after Major Vytautas Bulvičius.