Improving the Army’s Materiel Readiness with Cloud Migration
Key takeaways
The Army Materiel Command’s (AMC’s) Logistics Modernization Program (LMP) ensures troops have equipment, parts, and supplies at hand. In response to growing cybersecurity risks, Maximus supported LMP cloud migration to boost security and data access, reduce costs, and streamline processes. The team migrated 40+ databases and 50+ applications and leveraged automation to eliminate manual cybersecurity tasks.
Improving the Army’s Materiel Readiness with Cloud Migration
Situation
The AMC aims to ensure globally dominant land force capabilities as the Army’s primary logistics and sustainment command, ensuring installation and materiel readiness. Powered by an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, AMC’s LMP runs 24/7 and enables management of the global supply chain and is accessed by 23K+ users conducting 9M+ transactions daily. The LMP’s embedded workflows provide maintenance, repair, and retirement of warfighting equipment.
Challenge
With multiple locations worldwide, the LMP was susceptible to high risk from cyber, terrorist, and other threats. The Army needed trusted cloud migration expertise to strengthen system security without sacrificing availability.
Solution
Working with a team of partners, Maximus implemented:
- Core program management, including strategy, structure, and expertise
- Migration to cloud using an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud solution along with protocols to maintain availability of legacy systems during the process
- Review and streamlining of system processes
- Extensive quality control (QC), including testing to ensure data accuracy post migration and development of an automated notification and escalation process to quickly handle issues
- Project service desk support, including continuous Tier 1 and Tier 1.5 support for production applications, interfaces, databases, and servers
- Technology solutions, including automation to eliminate manual review of vulnerabilities
Cloud solutions to strengthen global land force capabilities.
How We Did It
As a trusted Army partner since 2014, Maximus brought essential credibility to the project that enabled success by:
- Leveraging extensive experience with AWS cloud engineering, design, and operations along with preferred FedRAMP-authorized solutions for built-in security
- Deploying a deep talent pool with more than 100 AWS certifications
- Drawing on a proven history with database consolidation, application development environments, and digital modernization methodologies
- Complying with rigorous security standards across all tactics
Results
- 40+ databases, 20+ servers, and 50+ applications migrated to a modernized cloud infrastructure
- Improved LMP system access to global supply chain data
- Maintained LMP activity levels at all 50 program locations during migration
- Streamlined processes and eliminated manual reviews of vulnerabilities
- Enhanced LMP capabilities and command, control, and communication capabilities
Successful cloud migration has led to modern supply chain logistics capabilities for improved mission readiness, enabling the Army to launch and sustain any operation upon request.