The U.S. Army is preparing to move its personnel and pay system to Oracle’s cloud platform and expects the cloud-based system to be operational by December 2027, Defense One reported Wednesday.
In October, Oracle announced that the military branch will migrate its Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army, also known as IPPS-A, to the company’s U.S. Defense Cloud under a task order awarded through the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, or JWCC.
Oracle is one of the four companies that won spots on the potential $9 billion JWCC contract awarded in 2022.
Kim Lynch, executive vice president for Oracle’s government defense and intelligence business, called the task order the “biggest competitively awarded JWCC contract” so far.
“So that has been a huge win for us,” added the 2024 Wash100 awardee.
According to the report, Oracle must develop a secure environment to host data, applications and services before commencing the cloud migration effort.
“The awarded task order allows the team to conduct parallel operations in building an Oracle Broker Landing Zone environment at the Army level and the operating environments for the IPPS-A tenancy,” a spokesperson for the Army said. “This step is critical to lay the necessary framework for migration of the IPPS-A system and its associated environments.”
What Is IPPS-A?
IPPS-A is an online platform that the Army uses to manage personnel, recruitment and soldiers’ medical files.
The platform seeks to eliminate more than 300 interfaces and integrate over 30 existing systems to deliver visibility over the entire force and improve access and auditability of personnel and pay information across the organization.