Enlighten IT Consulting, LLC, a subsidiary of MacAulay-Brown (MacB), an Alion Company, was awarded a maximum $15M prime task order under the Army Cloud Computing Enterprise Transition (ACCENT) ID/IQ, Alion announced April 25. Under the terms of the contract, Enlighten will create a large-scale cloud computing environment and provide engineering services to support Army data analytics and integration efforts across the data lifecycle for the Army Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information System (PEO-EIS) Strategic Initiatives Group (SIG). The task order has a one-year base period with two one-year option periods.
The task objective is to leverage the
data collection associated with the Army Leadership Dashboard (ALD) Prototype
Project, as well as support Army data strategy goals of making data visible,
accessible, understandable, trusted, and interoperable. This work will further
the overarching Army goal of providing “one version of the truth” for sourcing
data to support Army analytics.
“I am very pleased that we have been
given the opportunity to continue and expand our support for our Army
customer,” said Mr. Duane Shugars, Senior Vice President and General Manager of
Enlighten IT. “Data acquisition and fusion within a scalable ecosystem will
deliver enhanced mission support to the Army for rapid mission capabilities.”
The Enlighten cloud solution for the Army uses the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Solution (S3) inside of AWS GovCloud to facilitate the storage, distribution, analysis, and archival requirements of ALD.
Source: Alion
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