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Army Analytic Capabilities: A Case Study Within Army Contracting Command and Its Implications
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marcellino, William
- Language:
- English
- Other Title:
- Army Analytic Capabilities
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation 2021
- Summary:
- The U.S. Army faces two analytical and management challenges because its data are locked away in siloed and proprietary databases and it lacks access to modern, commonplace analytical tools. To solve these two problems, the authors developed a case study with Army Contracting Command (ACC) to determine if there is a simple and effective way to overcome these challenges and found an effective, efficient, and quick path forward. The authors conducted a proof of concept for data sharing and analytics with ACC, which has high volume and value of annually awarded contracts. They migrated large contracting data sets from ACC, built a robust querying and analytics platform for exploring that data, piloted a method for accessing heretofore inaccessible unstructured text data from contracts, and conducted a pilot machine-learning analysis highlighting how a cloud-based contract analysis system for ACC could lead to cost savings. The team found that the Army can achieve immediate cost savings and efficiencies through advanced data analytics and the use of currently available commercial off-the-shelf technology. The Army should immediately conduct multiple similar proofs of concept that take siloed and inaccessible data to the cloud to be analyzed using modern analytical tools to validate the methodology from this report across multiple commands.
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