Accenture Federal Services Secures $480M Army Contract for AI-Centric Task Management System
Accenture’s U.S. federal subsidiary has been awarded a contract worth up to $480.4 million over five and a half years to develop an artificial intelligence-centric system for task and correspondence management across the Department of Defense. This new system, named the Joint Enterprise Task Management System (JETMS), is designed to serve approximately 200,000 users across 68 defense and interagency organizations, including various service branches and administrative agencies. The Pentagon and Army leadership view JETMS as a critical tool to reduce manual administrative tasks and provide leaders with quicker access to information for daily operations and decision-making. The Army received two bids for this firm-fixed-price contract, which was awarded through a commercial solutions opening and a three-phase downselect process. JETMS is intended to replace two existing legacy platforms: the Office of the Secretary of War’s Correspondence and Task Management System and the Army’s Enterprise Task Management So...