The Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems’ Foreign Military Sales – Army Case Execution System Product Office, a.k.a. FMS-ACES, has launched a competitive prototype effort to develop new products to support the FMS community.
Under the competitive prototype phase, two vendors will develop their prototypes through August to provide the FMS-ACES with the capability to plan and perform case initiation and implementation, logistics, financial execution and forecasting activities.
“FMS-ACES is looking at our vendors to attack the current problems with modern solutions using an Agile approach,” said Aric Sherwood, acting assistant program executive officer at PEO EIS.
“For PEO EIS, a guiding principle in Agile is about getting value to users in the form of working software as quickly as possible,” Sherwood said.
The prototype phase will culminate in technology demonstrations in which the Army will select one offering that best fits the needs of the FMS community and its stakeholders.
FMS-ACES is part of PEO EIS’ Defense Integrated Business Systems portfolio that is tasked with modernizing the U.S. Army’s FMS case implementation, execution and closure system.