Contracting Information Technology System

Mission — CON-IT source

The Contracting Information Technology (CON-IT) system enables the Department of the Air Force (DAF) to accomplish its mission effectively and securely in today's rapidly changing and increasingly contested cyber domain. The Air and Space Forces require a single, 21st century contract management solution to enable DAF mission execution, from acquiring and sustaining weapon system platforms, to supporting contingency operations overseas. CON-IT supplies this single solution by consolidating and replacing numerous aging and increasingly unsupportable, legacy contract writing and management systems, while enabling the Air and Space Forces to procure vital capability faster and with increased data accuracy through built-in automation. Specifically, CON-IT's functionality provides contract data sharing interoperability across all DAF contracting communities and external business partners such as Defense Contract Management Agency, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, and industry partners. In addition, CON-IT facilitates the execution of the DAF's 200+ billion annual budget, ensuring global procurement operations are timely, auditable, and secure. CON-IT enables the DAF to anticipate and respond to the changing pace and dynamic nature of processes, regulations, compliance and technologies across the contracting domain. It empowers the contracting community to comply with Financial Improvement Audit Readiness (FIAR). CON-IT supports performance of a full financial audit as required by title 10 U.S.C. Chapter 9A, Sec 240-D. CON-IT was the Department of Defense's (DoD) first contract writing system meeting Section 862 of FY13 NDAA requirements implementing DoD Procurement Data Standards (PDS). In addition, CON-IT implements Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (as amended) to make Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) accessible to people with disabilities. To modernize the DAF contracting infrastructure, requirements are divided into 2 objectives. Objective 1: Develop the following 8 capabilities: • Capability 1: Modernize contract writing for 3,800 operational/installation contracting users, sunsetting the Standard Procurement System (SPS) system. (Completed in FY19; first and only service to comply with the original Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) SPS sunset mandate) • Capability 2: Modernize contract writing capability for the contingency contracting community, sunsetting O'Contrax system. (Completed in FY20) • Capability 3: Modernize contract writing capability for 2,500 Weapon Systems contracting users, sunsetting ConWrite, a 20+ year-old system containing contracts worth more than 2 trillion for major weapon system programs such as B-21, KC-46, and more. (Fielded in FY24) • Capability 4: Deliver Business Intelligence (BI) capability to provide timely and reliable data for decision makers across the entire DAF. (Completed in FY23) • Capability 5: Modernize capability to meet the unique classified needs within all contracting communities. This capability is on the critical path to sunset ConWrite and is planned to be completed FY25. • Capability 6: Modernize capability to meet the unique needs of the R&D contracting community to execute grants and cooperative agreements. This capability is on the critical path to sunset ConWrite and is planned to be completed FY26. • Capability 7: Add E-Filing capability to provide a single, authoritative source for electronic contract file storage with capability to search and review individual documents. This capability is planned to be complete in FY26. • Capability 8: Modernize contract writing capability for 1,500 Logistics contracting community users to award weapon system sustainment product support/logistics requirements. Enables the DAF to sunset the Automated Contract Preparation System (ACPS), a 30+ years old legacy system. This capability is on the critical path to sunset ACPS and is planned to be completed in FY28. Thus far, CON-IT has successfully fielded four (Capabilities 1-4), Minimum Viable Products (MVP) of the eight established capabilities modernizing contract writing and management for both the operational and contingency contracting communities as well as improving Business Intelligence. Fielding these capabilities resulted in the replacement of two of four contract writing systems. Objective 2: Maintain Compliance. CON-IT has deployed to 6,672 active users across 329 procurement organizations worldwide as of 4QFY24. In FY24, CON-IT awarded 75,181 contract actions totaling 42.5B, compared to 73,334 contract actions totaling 28.4B in FY23. The DAF continuously addresses numerous technical debt backlog requirements to maintain system functionality and meet modern data standards. These initiatives also develop capability to maintain compliance with Federal and OSD mandates, coordinate DevSecOps, and improve infrastructure and system performance. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY24 0.000M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY25 0.000M is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. The FY 2026 request for CON-IT includes 29,277 thousand of discretionary and 0 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of 29,277 thousands. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

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