April 20, 2021
McLean, VA聽鈥撀犇⒐绞悠� Allen Hamilton聽(NYSE: BAH)聽announced today that the firm聽was聽selected聽by the聽Army Futures Command鈥檚 Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center聽to serve聽as the primary developer聽of聽its聽聽solution. Rainmaker is a聽common data fabric that will聽enable聽currently聽incompatible systems across joint mission spaces to seamlessly share, secure and synchronize data required to coordinate complex combat operations.聽The solution聽is聽a foundational layer聽for聽the Department of Defense鈥檚 Joint All Domain Command & Control (JADC2) concept聽that will聽enable data sharing across聽all U.S. military domains including聽land, sea, air,聽space聽and cyberspace.
"We are proud to have been selected to聽develop聽Rainmaker, a critical program that聽supports all four of the Army's mission areas鈥攆rom the聽Warfighter Mission Area聽to the聽Enterprise Information Environment Mission Area, said Michael聽 Davenport,聽a聽senior聽vice聽president at 蘑菇视频 Allen and leader of the firm's C5ISR business. "This program will聽further strengthen聽the Army's聽ability to聽harness聽data and information to achieve tactical,聽operational, and strategic objectives across聽multi-domain operations, and facilitate future modernization efforts聽like聽those envisioned聽by聽JADC2.聽The development being done on this program is emblematic of why it is critical to聽fuse聽deep, technical knowledge聽with mission expertise聽to win聽on the future battlefield."
As the prime contractor for this award,聽蘑菇视频 Allen will聽apply聽its diverse expertise聽in software development,聽data engineering,聽DevSecOps, Artificial Intelligence聽(AI), and cloud聽computing聽to create a data fabric聽based on an聽open systems聽architecture and聽common standards聽so that data is easily聽discoverable, accessible, synchronized and secured聽across聽the Department of Defense. The firm will聽provide a range of聽state-of-the-art聽data services including a distributed cloud architecture; a聽unified and harmonized聽cross-functional聽data聽store聽that includes structured, unstructured, semi-structured, and binary data;聽an聽advanced analytics framework聽that supports capabilities including machine learning; and APIs that use open standards to enable existing and new programs to ingest聽both聽batch and streaming, high-velocity data.聽
鈥淩ainmaker聽will form one of the pillars聽of the Pentagon鈥檚 JADC2 vision聽as well as the foundation on which the Army and others can build a wide array of AI聽services聽to improve decision making on and off the battlefield,鈥澛爏aid聽Gus Taveras,聽Senior Executive Advisor in the firm鈥檚 Defense market. 鈥溎⒐绞悠� Allen聽has both the聽mission understanding and聽deep technical expertise needed to help the Army build a solution that can聽quickly聽assess,聽share聽and secure聽voluminous tactical data鈥攆rom satellites and central databases to individual aircraft, vehicles, and frontline troops鈥攖o help warfighters across all U.S. military services make rapid, informed decisions.鈥�
