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US Army adds Technica to $250M cloud modernization contract

By TechTaffy Desk

Technica, a company that provides systems engineering and operations and maintenance for mission-critical networks and applications, announced that the Army’s Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS) has selected the company as a provider for the $250 million Army Cloud Computing Enterprise Transformation (ACCENT) Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA).

Under ACCENT, Technica will support the US Army in transitioning its systems and applications to FedRAMP-certified commercial cloud hosting services or an Army Enterprise Hosting Facility (AEHF).

The ACCENT BOA is a source for Army commands and organizations requiring commercial cloud hosting, data center migration, transition support and application modernization services.

[Image courtesy: Technica]

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