Mar 6, 2018   SOURCE: BusinessWire

Octo Awarded Subcontract by DMI to Support Army Human Resource Systems (AHRS)

Octo Consulting Group, Inc. (Octo), an award-winning provider of mission critical technology and digital services to the Federal marketplace, today announced it is part of a team, including Prime Contractor DMI, along with Subcontractors DVS, and Dfuse, that has been awarded a $20 million contract to provide systems engineering and programmatic support to the U.S. Army‘s Human Resource Systems (AHRS), which provide Soldiers a set of standardized knowledge-based automation tools that ensure human resource functions are aligned with the Army’s mission.

DMI’s firm-fixed price contract has a five-year period of performance, with one 11-month base period and four 12-month option periods. DMI was awarded as the prime contractor, and Octo, DVS, and Dfuse are sub-contractors on the contract.

Under the terms of the Octo’s contract with DMI, Octo will support the Army’s Program Executive Office - Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS), Product Director Army Human Resource Systems (PD AHRS) with programmatic and technical engineering management support for planning and executing the design, development, deployment and lifecycle sustainment of all AHRS hardware and software applications. Octo will support the AHRS Technology Integrated Management Support Services (TIMSS) program team.

“As a subcontractor to DMI, we are honored to expand our decade-long relationship with the U.S. Army PEO-EIS by ensuring these critical human resource systems are not only interoperable with the DoD’s IT systems, but are also global in scale,” said Mehul Sanghani, Chief Executive Officer, Octo. “This contract is a validation by the Government that our team clearly understands the role these systems play in supporting our service members in combat and at home. We look forward to advancing AHRS into the future as its existing systems transition into the Army’s Integrated Pay and Personnel System (IPPS-A) portfolio as part of the Army HR Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vision.”

AHRS provides soldiers with standardized knowledge-based automation tools that are essential to human resource accountability. As part of its program management responsibilities, AHRS oversees a portfolio of systems in sustainment, including Installation Support Modules (ISM) including Central Issue Facility, Range Facility Management Support System (RFMSS), Deployed Theater Accountability System (DTAS), Tactical Personnel System (TPS) and Electronic Military Personnel Office (eMILPO). Additionally, AHRS is charged with developing a next-generation Commander’s Risk Reduction Dashboard early-warning suicide prevention system that provides predictive analytics for identifying and mitigating at-risk Soldiers.

Along with supporting PD AHRS as a subcontractor to DMI, Octo has been supporting US Army PEO EIS as a Prime Contractor since 2008, providing acquisition, business architecture, systems engineering, knowledge management, strategic communications and program management services. Octo also supports other Health IT programs across the Federal government, including Veterans Affairs (VA), Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Occupational Health and Safety Agency (OSHA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

About Octo Consulting Group

Octo is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of digital services for the Federal government. Octo specializes in providing agile software development, user experience design, and cloud engineering services that address the government’s most pressing missions and modernization challenges.

Octo is one of only 11 private companies in the United States to have been appraised at CMMI® Level 4 for Software Development Maturity (CMMI-DEV constellation). In addition, Octo also maintains ISO 9001, ISO 20000, and ISO 27001 certifications and is also one of only seven government contractors that is a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) Gold Partner: an industry-accepted framework for developing software applications using Agile development principles.

Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Octo has additional offices in Alexandria, Virginia and Fulton, Maryland. Learn more at octoconsulting.com.