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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.

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.