The U.S. Army recently announced the award of three competitive prototype contracts as a risk reduction measure and technology demonstration for the Army Training Information System (ATIS) project. The awards are firm fixed price, via Other Transaction Agreements, and administered through the C5 Consortium Management Group. Each agreement is a 12-month Period of Performance.

GCSS-Army Increment 1 is an ERP solution that has innovated supply, maintenance, property accountability and associated financial management operations across the Army. GCSS-Army replaced over 40,000 antiquated, stove-piped tactical logistics and financial management systems with one integrated, web-based ERP solution. It leverages cutting-edge industry capabilities through its commercial-off-the-shelf software, SAP, which revolutionized the way the Army orchestrates tactical logistics and financial management. The logistics enterprise, with GCSS-Army as the tactical component, has propelled the Army toward its strategic goal of asset transparency, which permits the Army to rightsize unit supply levels.

Ms. Chérie A. Smith accepted the charter to serve as the Program Executive Officer, Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS), during an Assumption of Charter ceremony at Thurman Hall on Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

rmy Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS), in coordination with the Army Contracting Command - Rock Island (ACC-RI), awarded a contract extension for the Army Desktop and Mobile Computing - 2 (ADMC-2), a $6.545 billion Indefinite-Delivery/ Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract, on April 20, 2018.

In June 2017, the Program Office, Army Enterprise Staff Management System (AESMS) replaced the Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) Tasker Tracking System with a proprietary, commercial-off-the-shelf Task Management Tool (TMT) system for both Non-Secure and Secure Internet Protocol Networks. TMT is automated, enabling the end-to-end tasker lifecycle to be completed electronically within a single application. Not only has TMT increased tasking efficiency, the tool provides transparency and accountability of works in progress and completed assignments.

Fort Leonard Wood is the first Army installation in the continental United States to complete a migration from a legacy analog telephone system to an Internet Protocol-based voice architecture.

Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) held an industry day for Cyberspace Real-time Acquisition Prototyping Innovation Development, also known as C-RAPID, on Fort Belvoir, Virginia.