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Some of you might know that in a previous life, I was a reporter covering the military-industrial complex, and today's news from Appian is right along the lines of the kind of thing I used to write about. Luckily, it's all about enterprise processes, so I can write about it here today too!

Today, Northrop Grumman reported that it had selected Appian to provide business process services to the Army's 'Defense Knowledge Online' program. According to the release, "The task order, with a $267 million ceiling, was awarded under the U.S. Air Force Network-Centric Solutions contract vehicle and is the largest portal task order ever awarded in the federal government."

More from Appian:

"As the key technology provider for the initial Army Knowledge Online (AKO) initiative, Appian is excited by this next stage of implementation as it evolves into DKO to serve the entire Department of Defense,” said Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian. “DKO promises to provide all warfighters with access to the information they need to better do their jobs and complete their missions, and we are actively working to deliver the best possible solution to attain this goal.”

And more info from the release:

Leveraging Appian’s robust platform, DKO will be the single enterprise service portal, serving as the entry point for all U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and authorized users to access DoD and government intranets supporting operations, missions and critical support processes for forces worldwide. DKO will provide relevant information and applications to the warfighter and other government users through a secure service-oriented framework to help them perform their missions more effectively. As the industry’s best-of-breed large-scale knowledge-based portal, Appian’s technology will help enable the DKO enterprise solution to grow from 1.8 million users to possibly eight million users or more, potentially across all federal government agencies.

Here's the link to this news on ebizQ.

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