Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground is initiating an open call for commercially available technologies that could provide a cloud-based digital platform to optimize contract administration and post-award procedures.

The digital platform must be able to intake proposal and invoice data for comparative analysis of individual cost elements, calculate variance among individual cost elements, calculate project cost overrun and identify what elements are driving the overrun, according to an announcement posted by the Department of Defense’s Tradewinds initiative.

The selected contractor must implement adaptive algorithms to analyze data and identify opportunities for process improvements and cost savings, provide reporting and visualization tools, develop automated notification and alert tools and apply a feedback system.

Interested parties have until Sept. 6 to submit proposals.

A group of 22 joint and coalition warfighters has successfully completed the Air Force’s Command and Control Warrior Advanced Course — a high-level, multi-domain integration program.

Composed of individuals from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force and Royal Australian Air Force, the team was trained in both kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities available to the Combined/Joint Force Air Component Commander, the Air Force 505th Command and Control Wing said on Thursday.

According to Capt. Austin Hairfield, a C2WAC 23-4 graduate and Air Combat Command/A3JC, subject matter experts participating in the month-long course joined forces to focus on graduate-level operational warfare planning.

During the course, the team created a timely air battle plan for the Combined/Joint Forces Air Component Commander that considered joint kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities “across the spectrum of conflict,” Hairfield elaborated.

Taught by the 705th Training Squadron, C2WAC educates air component headquarters personnel on the planning and execution of air component operations at the operational level to meet the standards of the Joint Force Commander. 

The program immerses participants in the responsibilities of the air component across the competition continuum at the operational level using the joint planning process for air and the joint air tasking cycle framework.

“The key to C2WAC being the U.S. Air Force’s premier operational planning course is directly related to the high-quality students and top-notch instructors that we have in our classroom,” said Lt. Col. Benjamin Lee, commander of the 705th TRS.

In this course, he said, the team was given the opportunity to draw from experiences spanning 10 component headquarters and two Agile Combat Employment-capable wings “to hone their operational planning expertise in very complex multi-domain scenarios at the highest classification level.”

The training program was completed at Hurlburt Field, Florida.

Gina Raimondo, secretary of the Department of Commerce, has requested recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness to promote supply chain reliability with partners and allies in the Indo-Pacific region.

During the committee’s virtual meeting, Raimondo asked how the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework could be applied in the U.S. private sector and how the federal government could help enhance supply chain consistency in sectors in which India and other IPEF partners operate, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

“The last two years of supply chain crises have revealed that the U.S. government needs to invest more in supply chain resilience,” Raimondo said. 

“Your experience, energy, and leadership are helping us formulate and implement solutions to make our supply chains more resilient, diverse, and secure,” the secretary said to ACSCC members.

Raimondo also highlighted the work of the Commerce Department’s Supply Chain Center to strengthen supply chain resilience by helping the government make data-driven decisions and supporting public-private collaborations.