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Contract Writing System

AProcurementPartial Reconciliation3009B66001
What it is
Contract Writing System — a procurement program run by Army.
What changed
No FY25→26 comparison — trajectory data incomplete for this line.
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$6.06M
FY25 Total
FY26 Request
$468.0K
FY25→26 Change

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory
FY24: $6.06MFY26: $468.0KFY24FY26
FY24
$6.06M
FY26
$468.0K
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY22FY26

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

SeriesFY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$15.0M$4.02M$6.06M
Enacted$4.08M$6.06M$1.67M
Request$6.06M$1.67M$468.0K

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Program Lineage

No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.

Description

Description Contract Writing System

The Army Contract Writing System (ACWS) will be the Army's next-generation, enterprise-wide contract writing, management, execution, and close-out software system. ACWS will facilitate the standardization of Army Procurement business processes and streamline the integration with Army Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. As a comprehensive financial feeder system, ACWS will address the complete range of Army contracting needs. This includes contracts in both secure and non-secure environments, support for combat and non-combat contingencies, operations within and beyond the borders of the Continental United States, as well as assistance with grants and agreements. Additionally, ACWS will facilitate activities related to weapons systems, construction, installation, specialized contracting, and compliance with the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996. Based on Army Senior leadership direction, the Army pivoted to a Portfolio Approach that leverages existing technologies, maximizes share-ability and reuse across the DoD, and includes iterative design, development and testing for the remaining capability required for Army users. The overall approach includes on boarding United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) resources to act as the system integrator (SI), leveraging an Interagency Agreement (IAA) and using existing capabilities across DoD in order to minimize the development effort. To meet requirements, ACWS leverages functionality from Air Force's Contracting Information Technology (CON-IT), Army's Virtual Contracting Enterprise (VCE), DoD's Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE), GSA's System for Award Management (SAM), and other existing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) programs for an integrated Army system to enable decommission of Standard Procurement System (SPS) and Procurement Automated Data and Document System (PADDS). This approach enables contracting business intelligence and analysis. The Army is collaborating with the USDA Enterprise Application Services using IAAs to support development and delivery. The program has transitioned to the Agile development framework and conducted a discovery (risk reduction) effort in 2022, which informed development and resource requirements. The pivot implements Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) to support iterative development, testing and deployment to provide a flexible system responsive to warfighter needs. In FY 2026, the program plans to complete deployment to remaining PADDS users to facilitate sunset of that system by the end of the fiscal year.

Justification

Justification Contract Writing System

FY 2026 base procurement dollars in the amount of $0.468 million will fund fielding support, deployment and training assets for the Army Contract Writing System (ACWS) program. FY 2026 OPA funding supports deployment to remaining PADDS users support system. ACWS Funding decrease from FY 2025 to FY 2026 represents the program having fewer commands to deploy than in FY 2025 totaling $1.199 million.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit P-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Other Procurement, ArmyAFY24 Actuals$6.06M
Other Procurement, ArmyAFY25 Enacted$1.67M
Other Procurement, ArmyAFY26 Disc. Request$468.0K
Other Procurement, ArmyAFY26 Total$468.0K

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$9.47M$6.06M$1.67M$468.0K$468.0K

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

Lobbying Mentions

No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →