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Accenture U.S. Defense Flyer
Solving defense challenges on the ground, in the air, at sea and in cyberspace requires complete solutions that accelerate results by improving both battlefield operations and the processes and technologies that support the warfighter—helping to reduce risk, lower costs and enable high performance.

Responding to critical challenges
Defense forces operate in a complex environment. New enemies and battlegrounds are changing how the military develops concept of operations, maintains readiness and sets organizational priorities. To succeed, the military must respond to a number of growing pressures, such as:

Resource limitations
Budget and personnel shortages mean that all branches of the military must support the warfighter with cost-effective solutions that deliver rapid results.

Modernization
Defense forces must eliminate silos, streamlining processes while improving resource allocation, leveraging new technologies to move toward net-centricity and interoperability.

Collaboration
Mission success requires coordination and communication across military, diplomatic, economic and law enforcement channels as well as collaboration with industry.

Information management
Gathering, managing, prioritizing, sharing and securing massive amounts of data are essential for fast, informed decision making from command posts to the front lines.

Supporting the warfighter with high performance at speed
A global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, Accenture helps defense clients solve mission, IT and operational challenges. We connect clients to our broad capabilities and experience, offering complete, yet flexible, solutions to help achieve high performance at speed.

Our teams work collaboratively with you—understanding the context of changing requirements and the growing need to do more with less. We draw insights from Accenture’s High Performance Business research into the defining characteristics of high-performance businesses and governments. Our ability to connect industry leading practices and proven solutions to defense needs enables us to deliver results quickly. We also bring:

Delivery excellence
As part of the Accenture Defense industry group’s CMMI® Level 4 rating, we analyze the on-time delivery percentage of our current contracts. We met or beat the initial agreed upon delivery date of phase one capabilities and services 90 percent of the time—a percentage more than twice that of the government contractors evaluated in the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s “Defense Acquisitions” report.1

Process and performance improvement
Accenture helps defense clients achieve high performance by taking an end-to-end, process-based approach to address key business challenges. We work with clients to rapidly enhance the internal capabilities they need to improve operational and innovation performance.

Cross-industry experience
We have 20 years of experience working with all the armed services on large-scale modernization initiatives and we have worked with every cabinet-level agency and the largest federal government agencies.

Leading technologies
Drawing on relationships with best-in-class technology providers, we use commercial off-the-shelf technologies to deliver lower-risk solutions at speed, often reducing implementation time from years to months. For four straight years, Accenture has ranked No. 1 in Information Technology Services on FORTUNE’s list of most admired companies.

Innovation
Our investment in research and development, as well as numerous accolades from analysts, reflect our pragmatic approach to connecting technology advances such as service oriented architecture, with mission and business objectives.

Delivering innovative solutions to meet mission goals
Accenture offers an array of mission services capabilities combined with extensive consulting, technology and outsourcing know-how. Our services include:

Mission Services

• Command and control
• Modeling, simulation and training
• Intelligence and multi-level security
• Trusted information sharing
• Space and communications systems

Strategy, Operations and IT

• Management consulting
• Technology consulting
• Systems integration
• Outsourcing—business process, application, infrastructure
   

Achieving outcomes for defense agencies
Our team has helped deliver outcomes supporting the military’s mission and operational needs including:

U.S. Air Force
Accenture helped deliver Network-Centric Commanders Decision Service, a pioneering information system designed to help enhance existing systems and evolve into a shared set of user-defined displays, real-time information, decision aids, forecasting and planning services. We also helped modernize the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Training Toolkit system so it can be net-centric, accessed remotely and more easily distributed to provide on-demand training capabilities to thousands of warfighters. The system touts 99.9 percent availability at major training exercises and is helping to reduce event operational support costs by 20 percent.

U.S. Army
We helped design, build, test, deploy and maintain the General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS), which will consolidate 87 legacy systems into a single enterprise-wide system capable of managing the Army’s $110 billion general fund. GFEBS will be used by 79,000 financial professionals at more than 200 locations worldwide.

U.S. Navy
We worked with the U.S. Department of the Navy’s Commander, Navy Installations Command after the consolidation of all shore operations into a single program-centric organization. With Accenture, the Navy identified quick win opportunities with a projected business value of $60 to $110 million over five years and enterprise-level savings projected to be $500 million to $1 billion over five years.

Intelligence community
We helped design and plan the transformation of a major intelligence agency’s support function under a new concept of operations to drive information superiority through integration and collaboration across alliance partners and increase systems capability and resource productivity.
At Accenture, we understand there is no room for failure when missions and lives are at stake. We work closely with defense and intelligence agencies to improve warfighting capability, modernize technology, and transform operations and processes to help increase speed to value.   Procurement of Accenture services is possible through Indefinite Delivery/ Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts. Please visit accenture.com/defense for a current listing.

For more information and to learn more about achieving high performance by accelerating mission and operational outcomes, please contact John Goodman at +1 703 966 3141 or john.b.goodman@accenture.com.

About Accenture Defense
Accenture’s Defense industry group delivers strategy, operations, IT and mission services that enable departments of defense, the intelligence community and federal agencies to achieve high performance and support the warfighter at speed. With the help of Accenture’s capabilities, worldwide presence and experience, clients meet mission goals, mitigate risk and realize cost savings. Visit www.accenture.com/defense for more information.