Contract Writing System
The Army Contract Writing System (ACWS) will be the Army's next-generation, enterprise-wide contract writing, management, execution, and close-out software system. ACWS will facilitate the standardization of Army Procurement business processes and streamline the integration with Army Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. As a comprehensive financial feeder system, ACWS will address the complete range of Army contracting needs. This includes contracts in both secure and non-secure environments, support for combat and non-combat contingencies, operations within and beyond the borders of the Continental United States, as well as assistance with grants and agreements. Additionally, ACWS will facilitate activities related to weapons systems, construction, installation, specialized contracting, and compliance with the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996. Based on Army Senior leadership direction, the Army pivoted in FY22 to a Portfolio Approach with the change from CGI to the Appian solution that leverages existing technologies, maximizes share-ability and reuse across the DoW, and includes iterative design, development and testing for the remaining capability required for Army users. The overall approach includes on boarding United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) resources to act as the system integrator (SI), leveraging an Interagency Agreement (IAA) and using existing capabilities across DoW in order to minimize the development effort. To meet requirements, ACWS leverages functionality from Air Force's Contracting Information Technology (CON-IT), Army's Virtual Contracting Enterprise (VCE), DoW's Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE), GSA's System for Award Management (SAM), and other existing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) programs for an integrated Army system to enable decommission of Standard Procurement System (SPS) and Procurement Automated Data and Document System (PADDS). This approach enables contracting business intelligence and analysis. The Army is collaborating with the USDA Enterprise Application Services using IAAs to support development and delivery. The program has transitioned to the Agile development framework and conducted a discovery (risk reduction) effort in 2022, which informed development and resource requirements.
FY2027 planned work FY 2027 funding for program management support in the ACWS Government Program Management Office includes contractor support, and CECOM for resource planning with multiple delivery teams, agile life cycle planning, agile execution, risk management, schedule management, and facilities. FY 2027 will focus on execution of the solution implementation, deployment, and transition to long term sustainment in conjunction with the CI/CD pipeline and introduction of secure contracting functionality. This cost also represents SIBR funding.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding decrease due to completion of functional requirements in prior years and aligns the current planned system development effort.
FY2026 plans — current year FY 2026 funding for program management support in the ACWS Government Program Management Office includes contractor support, and CECOM for resource planning with multiple delivery teams, agile life cycle planning, agile execution, risk management, schedule management, and facilities. FY 2026 will focus on execution of the solution implementation, deployment, and transition to long term sustainment in conjunction with the CI/CD pipeline.
FY2025 accomplishments FY 2025 funding for program management support in the ACWS Government Program Management Office includes contractor support, and CECOM for resource planning with multiple delivery teams, agile life cycle planning, agile execution, risk management, schedule management, and facilities. FY 2025 will focus on execution of the solution implementation, deployment, and transition to long term sustainment in conjunction with the CI/CD pipeline.
FY2027 planned work FY 2027 RDTE funding builds required functionality using Agile development practices to develop an IL6 complaint version of ACWS. FY 2027 RDTE funding will be used for data migration to support this this user community.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 RDTE funding decrease reflects completions of functional requirements in prior years and aligns the current planned system development effort.
FY2026 plans — current year FY 2026 RDTE funding builds required functionality using Agile development practices and leveraging the IAA with USDA, including PIEE contract closeout, warrant management, document numbering, concurrent modifications and High to Low integration to automate and record sensitive (high side) transactions from the contracting community. This area also includes resources to support agile software development. FY 2026 RDTE funding will be used for data migration development to support the retirement of PADDS.
FY2025 accomplishments FY 2025 RDTE funding builds required functionality using Agile development practices and leveraging the IAA with USDA, including source selection, vendor portal, Foreign Military Sales, Workload assignment & Strategic sourcing, and additional functionality for pre and post award management. This area also includes functional support for business process re-engineering and resources to support agile software development.
FY2027 planned work FY 2027 resources support continuous testing and deployment of new functionality, including facilitating operational assessments in coordination with field users. This funding also leverages the implementation of a CI/CD pipeline with automated testing capability.
FY2026 plans — current year FY 2026 resources support continuous testing and deployment of the new solution, including facilitating operational assessments in coordination with field users. This funding also leverages the implementation of a CI/CD pipeline with automated testing capability.
FY2025 accomplishments FY 2025 resources support continuous testing and deployment of the new solution, including facilitating operational assessments in coordination with field users. This funding also leverages the implementation of a CI/CD pipeline with automated testing capability.