Empower AI books $255M DISA enterprise IT recompete
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Ross Wilkers
The Defense Information Systems Agency is emphasizing targeted automation for the next cycle of this progra.
Empower AI has secured a potential five-year, $255.4 million task order that extends its role as a primary provider of enterprise IT service delivery support to the Defense Information Systems Agency.
DISA’s J6 organization is responsible for providing IT products, services, solutions and other user support to the defense secretary’s office and all Pentagon “Fourth Estate’ agencies outside of the service branches. DISA-J6 oversees all engineering work on the military’s global IT infrastructure and networks to ensure the systems are interoperable.
The new task order emphasizes targeted automation to reduce manual work and speed up resolution times for users, Empower AI said Tuesday.
"We will apply AI-enabled automation where it measurably improves outcomes for DISA J6 mission partners, while maintaining the reliability and security that DISA J6 Service Delivery operations require” Empower AI chief executive Jeff Bohling said in a release.
Work will take place over one base year and up to four individual option years. DISA made this award through the General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule program, which gives agencies access to commercial solutions at pre-negotiated prices.
Empower AI’s capture of this recompete means the company will continue work it first won in the fall of 2019, when it was known as NCI. DISA also emphasized artificial intelligence in that $269.9 million contract.
DISA has obligated $329.4 million in task order volume to-date against current contract ahead of its scheduled June 29 sunset date, according to GovTribe data.