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Industry Innovators
Accenture
Accenture Federal Digital Studio
When the Accenture Federal Digital Studio opened in
2016, the goal was to help government customers, partners and stakeholders find new ways to drive change. The studio’s two main offerings
— service design and digital product design — bring proven commercial practices and emerging technologies to bear on public-sector problems.
In one project, the company is developing ways to deliver training to veterans and building an online community to change how veterans receive on-demand care for combat stress.
More than 9,000 Accenture Federal employees have been trained on the Digital Studio’s approach to co-creation and collaborative problem-solving.
Applied Insight
Altitude
Applied Insight has invested
in cutting-edge technologies through acquisitions, internal research and the creation of aiLabs. The company also created Altitude, an automated and scalable platform-as-a- service cloud management solution that lets organizations retain total control, compliance and visibility over their cloud environments. The solution helps remove barriers to large- scale cloud adoption by working across private and public cloud infrastructures and enabling data analytics and machine learning tasks.
B3 Group
Digital Transformation Center
Leveraging its Salesforce expertise, B3 has worked to overcome major issues at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Digital Transformation Center, including internal resistance to change and competing demands on time and resources. The VA has struggled with deciding when to apply modernization principles to IT operations,
but B3 has taken on several
of those initiatives, including developing relevant standards and guidelines and pushing out support to 22,000 users. The company is also handling a case management system for a White House hotline and developing
a time-tracking application
for employees of the Veterans Benefits Administration.
Thanks to the continuous integration process B3 implemented, more than 20 development projects are being deployed each month. As a result, VA is moving away from many of its homegrown solutions as it gains more confidence in the capabilities and value of the Digital Transformation Center.
CACI International
Agile Solution Factory
CACI developed its Agile Solution Factory as a way to speed the development of high- quality software that meets agency missions. More than 200 government customers have toured the Ashburn,
Va., facility to learn about
best practices related to agile
transformation, optimization, scaling and holistic integration. The factory helped CACI win an $880 million task order to help the Army develop software for its personnel and force management systems.
Customers are seeing improvements that include increased productivity, lower implementation costs, delivery of what CACI says is 99 percent defect-free software and a faster time to market.
CGI Federal
Unify360
CGI Federal developed Unify360 to help agencies transition to hybrid cloud environments. It supports provisioning, configuration, reporting, billing and workload management for on-premises and cloud-based services.
One CGI customer, a large agency with 29 internal organizations, needed to
move away from a private data center model before the existing contract expired. With Unify360 at the heart of the project, the firm handled the architecture, design, implementation and migration of over 900 critical business system workloads — and
700 servers and associated applications — into a hybrid cloud. Unify360 allowed the agency to become the first
in the federal government to successfully migrate 95 percent of its workloads to the cloud and do so without a single unplanned outage during migration.
Chemonics International
TransIT and ePOD
Through its work on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Health Supply Chain Procurement and Supply Management project, Chemonics developed the Transportation Information Tool (TransIT) and an app called ePOD, for Electronic Proof of Delivery.
The solutions provide better visibility by tracking products throughout the supply chain and capturing photos at delivery. They enhance security, mitigate risks and improve financial controls. TransIT and ePOD are being tested in Cameroon, Mozambique and Angola
and will be rolled out to
more countries in the coming months.
CyberCore Technologies
WindRose
WindRose is an automated
tool for assessing supply chain threats. It captures and analyzes open-source and public data from over 50,000 sources — including the deep and dark webs, news feeds, social media, financial institutions and data corruption lists. The technology uses five key vectors of analysis to identify threats to the
supply chain: cyber exposure, hardware and device risks, regulatory and legal risks, and financial risks.
With support from CyberCore’s analysts,
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