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Cloud for Federal Missions

Our fit-for-federal solutions meet mission requirements with proven performance.

Secure & mission-ready cloud solutions

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).

Secure Cloud Management Platform

Accelerate authorization and time to productivity with turnkey cloud deployments.

Proven across hundreds of deployments for national security missions, our Secure Cloud Management Platform delivers parameterized security for all classification and impact levels – on your cloud environment of choice.

You get infrastructure and configuration as code, proficient managed services, experienced consultants, and all the advantages of centralized cloud management. With our platform, your teams can develop at lower classification levels and publish to high-side environments, reducing overall costs and ensuring system parity across mission workloads.

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CloudTracker

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.

Learn how the U.S. Army successfully migrated over 250 applications to the cloud, and how CloudTracker enables the agency to effectively manage budgets, forecast costs and maximize strategic cloud modernization initiatives. Read the case study here.

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CloudTracker key features

CloudTracker’s capabilities align to domains in the FinOps framework and can help establish and advance your organization’s FinOps culture.

Anomaly alert functionality

Visualizations allow leaders to identify deviations in expected spending, keeping a pulse on costs and budget trends over time.

Create & monitor budgets

Deep insights on budget spend and allocation help to facilitate resource management across the organization.

Create custom metrics

Customize and share persistent views of cloud consumption and utilization metrics.

Commitment-based discounts reporting

Inventory and analysis of current and former commitments offer data and insights on cost savings.

Cost allocation model

A comprehensive view of all incurred cloud costs, which can be spliced and filtered for various use cases, allows stakeholders to better understand how costs are allocated across the organization.

Forecasting based on previous spend

Forecasting features enable users to understand and predict estimated costs at both the account level for total monthly spend, and at the budgeted level to analyze remaining funds.

Ingest 3rd party data

The platform can consume third-party budget data via several methods such as API, CSV or manual upload, to improve existing frameworks, helping users track budgets against the enterprise’s objectives.

Real-time cloud billing data reporting

Daily ingestion & normalization of data help facilitate billing and reporting via info panels and other visualizations. Real-time dashboards educate users on the value of cloud financial management.

Real-time cloud resource utilization data reporting

Utilization data provides insight into overall resource management, helping users improve their resource governance and efficiently balance workloads to achieve the organization’s goals.

National Security edge solutions

Highly sensitive national security workloads often require air-gapped or disconnected processing. We build secure, accredited solutions using CSP hardware – from AWS Snowball Edge devices to Azure Stack Hubs – to address these mission requirements.

Accenture Federal PICARD

As an edge-to-cloud IoT/sensor orchestration platform, PICARD moves edge data into cloud process automation, including sensor data for force protection, warehouse logistics & aerial drones. Read more.

Accenture Federal Ageon ISR

Ageon ISR is an ITAR-exportable C4ISR platform for edge-based sensor fusion and C2, delivering radical insight and awareness to commanders and field operators worldwide. Read more.

SPOCK for secure cloud orchestration

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).

Cloud Foundations Framework – multi-cloud scaled

While hybrid, multi-cloud and poly-cloud implementations can deliver significant value, they also add cost and complexity through duplication of tools, services and staffing.

Accenture Federal Services’ Cloud Foundation Framework is a collection of tools and accelerators for single-pane management of hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It provides end-to-end cloud management capabilities spanning business, cloud and security requirements. This framework builds off Microsoft Azure’s native controls but is easily extensible to AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, on-prem & edge devices.

With Cloud Foundation Framework, agencies can optimize management and operating costs for existing multi-cloud implementations. It can also accelerate the deployment of new Azure tenants and scale out remote desktop services to the cloud. With its open architecture, Cloud Foundation Framework can help upgrade existing cloud security implementations to a zero-trust operating model.

Skylab eases DevSecOps provisioning

While DevSecOps provides value by standardizing application delivery, it also requires significant complexity, given the number of tools and services that need to be integrated.

Skylab is a built-for-federal accelerator to automate the provisioning of government enterprise DevSecOps environments across major cloud service providers, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. It deploys Accenture Federal Services' DevSecOps Factory using AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to simplify the provisioning of environments across various technology stacks. Each implementation includes a dedicated development environment, preconfigured DevSecOps services and the ability to customize, such as a choice of database or integration with single sign-on.

Accenture Federal Services has used Skylab on numerous federal programs to reduce the time and cost of provisioning environments, enabling the use of a standard configuration that can be further customized for specific requirements.

Enable continuous ATO with Cyber Assurance Integration Framework

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.

PlatformOne

Through an innovative, first-of-its-kind agreement with our Novetta acquisition, we are an authorized reseller for Platform One, the U.S. Air Force’s software development platform. Platform One is an official U.S. Department of Defense DevSecOps Enterprise Services team accessible DOD-wide.

Defense agencies and accredited contractors can take advantage of Platform One’s Iron Bank and Big Bang products with integrated support from Accenture Federal Services. Big Bang is the platform’s Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code environment, and Iron Bank provides container registry services.

Our support for Platform One is designed to strengthen the DOD software supply chain, providing enhanced access to innovative solutions via an expanded network of industry suppliers.

Federal cloud migration & modernization

Our specialized services and tools can streamline application modernization and migration to the cloud in accordance with federal requirements.

Isotope

Migration planning and analysis tool for Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments to optimize configurations, lower operating costs and reduce risk.

myNav

Accenture’s comprehensive cloud migration planning platform addresses business case development, target architecture requirements, green computing options and more.

RAPID+

Diagnostic application that collects and analyzes mission, business & technical data on applications and their environments; determines system health and fit-for-cloud for cloud-powered modernization. Read more.

Velocity

Accenture and Amazon Web Services (AWS) teamed up to build Velocity, a continuous innovation engine that offers government mission owners a platform for rapid application migration and modernization by delivering prebuilt essential cloud native primitives that include Security, repeatability and automation without sacrificing flexibility.

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Velocity fabric

Weave together ready-to-use, repeatable business solutions to quickly create enterprise-scale cloud environments that stays up to date automatically.

Velocity accelerators

Rapid deploy business enablers and build industry solutions with “plug and play” modules and help from our ecosystem of ISV partners.

Velocity activators

Kick complex transformation into high gear with field-tested assets, proven methodologies and the brightest minds of Accenture and AWS.​

Ecosystem partnerships

We maintain the industry’s richest ecosystem of cloud partners to accelerate value delivery through ready access to the right skills and expertise.

A leader in the IDC MarketScape: US federal government cloud professional services 2024 vendor assessment

Accenture Federal Services has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: US Federal Government Cloud Professional Services 2024 Vendor Assessment.  We are proud to be recognized for our strengths:  Technical expertise, understanding the federal government and unique requirements of agencies, architectural strategy and road maps, Cloud Innovation Lab, human side of cloud, vast innovation ecosystem with numerous technology partners, and project management skills.

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Awards and recognition

We are continually recognized as a best-in-class cloud provider by both technology leaders and independent industry analysts.

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Explore our federal cloud offerings further

Federal cloud computing

We combine commercial innovation and federal domain expertise to power secure and highly scalable cloud delivery for the U.S. government.

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Cloud strategy, talent & innovation

We help IT leaders develop and implement strategies, operating models, and cultural practices fostering cloud agility and secure mission delivery.

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Cloud development & migration

Agile, industrial-scale cloud-based systems at max enterprise performance, adaptability, resiliency in high-confidentiality US government applications.

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Cloud management & optimization

Deliver cost-effective, highly performant cloud services in commercial cloud, public and air-gapped for cloud infrastructure & environments.

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Our leaders

Justin Shirk

Managing Director – Accenture Federal Services, Cloud GTM & Secure Mission Lead
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David Stepp

Managing Director – Accenture Federal Services, Technology Account Lead
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Nilanjan Sengupta

Managing Director – Accenture Federal Services, Capability Director: Cloud, Data & AI
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Kimberly Aftergood

Managing Director – Accenture Federal Services, National Security Portfolio, Mission Integration & Special Capabilities
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Jennifer Estes

Senior Manager – Accenture Federal Services, RAPID+ Cloud Transformation Capability Lead
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Join our team

As part of Accenture Federal Services’ cloud computing practice, you’ll collaborate with the brightest minds in public, private, and edge cloud services. Together we’ll build cloud solutions for efficient and effective government.

We bring together mission expertise with proven innovation and leading practices to help the federal government do the extraordinary things it takes to create a better future for all of us. We are passionate about partnering with clients, going beyond the bold future we collectively imagine, to create real and enduring change for our country and our communities. We deliver new value and advantage that lasts, drawing on the full power of our partners and Accenture.

By joining our team, you’ll be working with dedicated colleagues and change makers who work with our clients at the heart of the Nation’s priorities in defense, intel, and public safety.

JOIN OUR TEAM

A destination for curious, motivated minds, we welcome exceptional individuals to work on our teams dedicated to programs of national significance. Advance your career in a thriving community of driven individuals in AI, machine learning, cyber, data science, cloud, and information exploitation.

Our teams provide a range of tech-enabled services to clients with the most complex, sensitive missions across the US federal government including the intelligence community and Department of Defense.

EXPLORE MISSION CAREERS

We are honored that veterans, service members and military spouses choose Accenture Federal Services to continue their public service. We exceeded our goal of recruiting 5,000 military veterans, service members and spouses by the end of 2020, and we’re bringing new thinking and innovative partnerships to ensure veterans, reservists and their spouses succeed in their new careers with us. Together we all bring a great diversity of talent to our clients, our communities, and our country.

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