CON-IT

Abstract

Contracting Information Technology System (CON-IT) provides a single contract management system for the Air Force contracting community to support all contracting needs including base operations, logistics, contingency, research, and weapons system contracting world-wide. CON-IT will enable strategic sourcing and other acquisition efficiencies by standardizing data, business rules, and milestone tracking. Furthermore, CON-IT will allow for a standardized and integrated method of anticipating, reacting, and responding to the current pace and changes in process, regulation, and technology across the contract domain. CON-IT is the replacement for the AF's version of Standard Procurement System (SPS). When fully implemented, CON-IT will enable business process changes necessary to converge on a common contract writing/management capability within the Air Force. CON-IT capabilities will be developed in accordance with the agile software development methodology. The CON-IT Integrated Program Office (IPO) will configure upon the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA's) government off-the-shelf (GOTS) product called Integrated Defense Enterprise Acquisition System (IDEAS) contract writing system, which provided a solution that serves as a baseline for CON-IT. CON-IT will utilize a non-traditional acquisition approach by leveraging DISA IDEAS as well as partnering with the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Enterprise Application Services (EAS) team via an inter-agency agreement to develop, test, validate, train end users, deploy, and maintain CON-IT. USDA's National Information Technology Center (NITC) will provide and maintain the DevSecOps and production environments. Gap requirements will be addressed through an iterative process of sprint development cycles, where usable capability is produced and made available to operational users after every sprint. The IPO construct along with application of agile principles allows the program to properly plan system requirements, deliver early capability to the end users, achieve early return on investment of taxpayer dollars, division of risk, reduce waste, effectively respond to change, and continuously improve our processes. Through agile software development CON-IT will address the current inefficiencies in the contracting domain, given there are multiple contract writing systems that continue to challenge the ability to operate responsively, consistently, and cost-effectively to award, administer, and close out mission critical contracts in a timely fashion. CON-IT will allow the contracting community to fully support compliance with financial auditability and Financial Improvement Audit Readiness (FIAR) goals that depend on the integrity of the data flow through the Procure to Pay (P2P) process. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver CON-IT capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0605826F, 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605830F, 0605831F, 0605832F, and 0605898F. As directed in the FY 2018 NDAA, Sec 825, amendment to PL 114-92 FY 2016 NDAA, Sec 828 Penalty for Cost Overruns, the FY 2018 Air Force penalty total is $14.373M. The calculated percentage reduction to each research, development, test and evaluation and procurement account will be allocated proportionally from all programs, projects, or activities under such account. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 643483_0901410F_4_3600_PB_2020

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• Aerospace Engineering.
• Defense Financial Management and Audit.
• International Relations and European Studies