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Contract Writing System
Budget Figures
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? →
- FY24
- $6.06M
- FY26
- $468.0K
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $6.06M |
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $1.67M |
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $468.0K |
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY26 Total | $468.0K |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 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? →