Cloud for Federal Missions

Federal agencies have unique mission and business needs that often cannot be met out-of-the-box by commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) cloud applications. Furthermore, these solutions must comply with government missions' most demanding security and performance requirements.

Accenture Federal Services fills this void with a series of built-for-federal solutions that combine innovation with security rigor to deliver world-class performance. Each of our offerings builds upon our deep immersion in the U.S. federal government's unique and demanding security standards.

We manage numerous Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated (GOCO) services for federal clients at Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 5 (IL5) and above and offer additional Contractor-Owned, Contractor-Operated (COCO) cloud services accredited at up to the FedRAMP High level. Accenture Federal Services is also a FedRAMP Authorized Third-Party Assessor Organization (3PAO).

CloudTracker is our cloud-agnostic offering for single-pane visibility and oversight of enterprise cloud performance and activity. Federal agencies use CloudTracker as a core component of their cloud FinOps strategy, providing insight into resource utilization, cost tracking, migration status, compliance and more.

What sets CloudTracker apart is that it's built for the federal mission, providing oversight of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure environments, including C2S and ready for C2E.

CloudTracker empowers federal agencies to manage risk proactively, monitor compliance and utilization, enforce accountability and optimize and reduce costs.

With the shift to hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, enterprises need integrated solutions that enable swift deployment, easy maintenance and secure management of workloads across multiple environments.

SPOCK allows agencies and contractors to rapidly deploy and manage cloud workloads on Azure and AWS in a secure, type-accredited, templatized manner. SPOCK is containerized using Kubernetes for portability and scalability, with parameterized Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) builds. Integrating with CloudTracker, SPOCK offers a comprehensive cloud management suite, licensed per deployed instance. From edge devices to fully converged hyperscale environments, SPOCK scales for customized functionality.

For our defense industrial base (DIB) clients, SPOCK supports Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). It also provides security architecture, hardening and body-of-evidence documentation necessary for NIST 800 accreditation and derivatives (including 800-53, ICD 503 & JSIG).

Assessment & Authorization (A&A) of mission and business systems is critical for cyber resilience but can create significant burdens for federal agencies involving thousands of hours of manual tasks. Agencies need a standardized approach to IT compliance, security and risk assessment that reduces the time and complexity of the assurance process, ensuring a faster, more cost-effective and more sustainable solution.

Accenture’s Cyber Assurance Integration Framework (CAIF) enables continuous authorization and integrates Information Assurance (IA) with DevSecOps automation to accelerate compliance processes and provide a proactive, integrated and risk-based approach to identifying security issues.

Working with CAIF, agencies have accelerated A&A package development and authorization approvals by as much as 50% while freeing up skilled security personnel from routine administrative tasks so they can focus on mission-essential work.