Accenture has been awarded a U.S. Air Force enterprise-IT-as-a-service (EITaaS) Compute and Store agreement, which aims to improve mission outcomes through advanced technology solutions, the company announced October 15.
Arlington, VA-based Accenture Federal Services (AFS) will deliver EITaaS
Compute and Store solutions at six bases as part of a $66 million other
transaction agreement (OTA) risk reduction effort (RRE). The six Air Force
bases are: Buckley AFB in Colorado; Maxwell AFB in Alabama; Offutt AFB in
Nebraska; Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska; Cannon AFB in New Mexico;
and Hurlburt Field in Florida.
As part of this agreement, AFS will use commercially available software
and other assets to modernize the Air Force technology infrastructure at these
bases, including migrating applications to the cloud. The applications will be
accessible through NIPRNet and SIPRNet, the military’s unclassified and
classified networks. AFS will maintain the EITaaS Compute and Store
environments leveraging artificial intelligence and automation to optimize
infrastructure processes.
“We’re honored to be selected to help the Air Force enable its digital
transformation,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Susan Lawrence, a managing director
at AFS who leads the Armed Forces sector within its Defense portfolio. “By
combining our leading commercial digital capabilities with our innovation
methodology and cutting-edge human-centered design work, we can help provide a
foundation for cloud growth within the Air Force and across the Department of
Defense.”
To deliver the work, AFS will also use the recently expanded Accenture
Federal Digital Studio, a collaborative environment where teams use service
design principles to help federal government clients advance mission
capabilities through innovation and rapid experimentation. This focus on
innovation is key to the Air Force’s goals for EITaaS Compute and Store.
According to the Air Force, the work will provide hosting solutions for on-premises and cloud applications, as well as a disconnected-state capability to meet unique base-level missions. It is intended to provide the Air Force men and women currently assigned to manage data centers with the ability to concentrate instead on cyber-focused mission assurance.
Source: Accenture
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