Salesforce signs $5.5B contract with the Army
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Nick Wakeman
The vehicle will be open to the entire Defense Department and broadens access to the company’s artificial intelligence, data and cloud technologies over the next 10 years.
Salesforce has signed a new contract with the Army to provide access to its artificial intelligence, data, and cloud technologies for the next decade.
The contract, signed by Salesforce subsidiary Computable Insights LLC, has a five-year base period and a single five-year option period. The indefinite-delivery-indefinite quantity contract has a ceiling of $5.6 billion over 10 years.
The Army and rest of the Defense Department will have access to Salesforce’s Missionforce National Security products that support efforts in decision making, optimizing operations, and improving support for the warfighter and civilian personnel.
The contract expands access to Salesforce-on-demand and shortens procurement timelines to days instead of months, Salesforce said Thursday.
Missionforce is designed to aid in functions for hiring and training, analytics, and workflow streamlining. The products also include agentic AI capabilities.
The contract builds on current Salesforce projects, such as work the company is doing doing with the Army Human Resources Command and Army Accessions Information Environment.
The move to an IDIQ contract marks a “shift from buying software to orchestrating outcomes at scale,” said Alan Webber, program vice president, defense and intelligence with the market intelligence firm IDC.