BigBear books $165M award to proceed on Army automation program
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Ross Wilkers
The company will proceed to full production as part of this effort to consolidate a dozen legacy force management systems into a singular view.
BigBear.ai has booked a five-year, $165.15 million contract to proceed on the next step of a franchise program with the Army to incorporate a new intelligent automation platform for visibility into force structure.
Phase three of the Global Force Information Management program tasks BigBear to transition the capabilities it developed under the prior two phases into full production, the company said Monday.
Since 2021, BigBear has been at work with the Army on consolidating 15 legacy systems into a more singular view for the service branch’s secretary and other senior leaders such as combatant commanders.
The idea is to help them manage force structure in a more data-centric way as they make decisions on resources, training, equipment and people.
For phase two, BigBear migrated a prototype of GFIM into the Army’s enterprise cloud computing environment called cARMY.
BigBear’s main teammates for the program are Deloitte, Appian and Ignite IT.
In the video below, BigBear CEO Mandy Long talks about the importance of this win with Yahoo!Finance.