Accenture's federal arm wins $480M Army task management system contract
Gettyimages.com / Just Super
By
Ross Wilkers
Pentagon and Army leaders see the future Joint Enterprise Task Management System as heavily leaning on artificial intelligence and eventually being able to cover 200,000 users.
Accenture’s U.S. federal subsidiary has won a potential five-and-a-half year, $480.4 million contract to help the Army develop an artificial intelligence-centric system for managing tasks and correspondence across the entire Defense Department.
The Joint Enterprise Task Management System will cover 200,000 users across 68 defense and interagency organizations, including the service branches and “Fourth Estate” administrative agencies. DOD and Army leaders see JETMS as a tool to cut down on manual administrative work and give leaders faster access to information for daily operations and decision-making.
The Army received two bids in total for the firm-fixed-price contract that was competed via a commercial solutions opening, according to the Pentagon’s Thursday awards digest. The service branch chose Accenture Federal Services through a three-phase downselect process.
JETMS is intended as the replacement of two legacy platforms – the Office of the Secretary of War’s Correspondence and Task Management System and the Army’s Enterprise Task Management Software Solution.
Solicitation documents issued in March describe the new system as featuring a desktop and mobile interface that requires minimal training, as well as tools for single sign-on and integration with the Microsoft 365 tool suite.
The system will also need a multitenant cloud architecture that can scale to meet the requirements for user reach.
The contract’s period of performance includes one base year, four individual option years and another six-month option that would extend work to August 2032.