Mr. James Amato, ATEC (top right), Mr. JT Craft, GFIM (bottom right) and Maj. Melvin McDonald, AIMMS (bottom left) speak at the AIMMS Industry Day
Mission Area
February 19, 2021
Nearly 200 individuals attended the Feb. 9 industry day event for the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) Integrated Mission Management System (AIMMS) prototype, livestreamed by PEO EIS.
To kick off the event, James Amato, executive technical director and deputy to the commander at ATEC, explained that in alignment with the Army’s modernization priority, ATEC is seeking to replace obsolete systems and more effectively and efficiently process and use data to carry out its test and evaluation (T&E) mission. To do this, it plans to implement a commercial-off-the shelf or low-code/no-code AIMMS solution that increases productivity and efficiency, as the Army moves toward a more agile and improved infrastructure and the cloud.
Following Amato’s presentation, Col. Rob Wolfe, project manager for PEO EIS’s Army Data and Analytics Platforms (ARDAP) portfolio, shared that the PEO plans to use an other transaction authority (OTA) approach in order to continually refine requirements, rapidly develop solutions and deliver the best capability.
CJ Akridge, the AIMMS lead for ATEC, provided more details on the impending solicitation, noting that ATEC wants a modern, web-based, cloud-hosted application — or integrated set of applications— to facilitate T&E project management, test capabilities and investment data; to manage data retention; and leverage existing knowledge for new and legacy systems. He added that ATEC will evaluate prototypes from industry in two phases, a demo of basic functional capabilities followed by a demo of fully functional capabilities.
Maj. Melvin McDonald III, assistant program manager for AIMMS at PEO EIS, shared the draft acquisition approach and milestone events with industry day attendees. As far as timeline is concerned, he said that the OTA award for phase one is tentatively scheduled for the end of third quarter, FY 2021, while the OTA award for phase two is scheduled for second quarter, FY 2022.
Finally, Kyle Burke of PEO EIS’s Strategic Initiatives Group discussed some of the legal regulations that AIMMS will be following, and JT Craft, product lead for ARDAP’s Global Force Information Management product office — which oversees AIMMS — fielded questions from industry day participants.
Following the event, one-on-one meetings were scheduled with industry vendors through Feb. 12.
To watch AIMMS Industry Day in its entirety, please visit the PEO EIS YouTube page or Facebook page. Industry day slides are available on the PEO EIS website, and the statement of need and ATEC T&E process maps are available on beta.SAM.gov.