Deloitte wins $488M FAA modernization challenge contract
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The Federal Aviation Administration is pushing toward an operating framework more heavily tilted toward cloud-native architectures, automated workflows and artificial intelligence.
Deloitte Consulting has won a potential 10-year, $488.2 million contract to work with the Federal Aviation Administration on efforts to modernize the agency’s digital infrastructure that includes applications and databases.
The FAA awarded the contract on Friday through a challenge-based acquisition launched in February, during which agency officials watched bidders demonstrate their approaches through a multi-phase competition.
Called ATLAS, the Accelerated Transformation of Legacy Applications and Systems challenge emphasized migrations to cloud-native architectures and technical debt reduction.
ATLAS’ scope covers at least 200 applications and 3,000 databases across the FAA’s mission support technology portfolio. The FAA’s goal is to shift to an operating framework more heavily tilted toward automated workflows and artificial intelligence integration.
The agency sees AI as a means to analyze legacy code, generate and test new code, automate security monitoring functions, and identifying redundant systems to be eliminated.
Deloitte and the other bidders competed over four phases that involved evaluations of corporate experience, concept paper submissions, portfolio rationalization strategies and modern factory demonstrations.