CHICAGO, November 6, 2026 – The effects of delayed defense procurement processes, on account of the old coding, become far-reaching when the costs extend to billions of taxpayer dollars.
And now, dealing with the issue becomes the responsibility of Avum Inc. The tech company from Agoura Hills landed a fixed price contract worth $61,053,453 to replace and refactor the Virtual Contracting Enterprise (VCE) Business Intelligence Suite. The award has already obligated $2.82 million of FY 2027 Army Operation and Maintenance funding.
Officially announced in the U.S. Department of War’s November 4 contract announcement under contract number W519TC-27-C-A019, the deal tasks the firm with modernizing the core analytics architecture powering defense acquisitions. Work will be performed directly in Agoura Hills, California, with an expected completion date of November 3, 2031.
Why refactor an existing procurement suite right now?
In simple terms, legacy monolithic software architectures do not scale effectively when there is a sudden increase in data volumes due to peak fiscal reporting. The VCE business intelligence ecosystem contains valuable data analytics that support Army contracting officers to measure performance indicators and operational trends.
Instead of completely destroying the system and rebuilding it, this project aims to carry out a process known as technical refactoring, where monolithic code systems are converted into microservices architectures. This helps the developers to change the capability modules without taking down the whole system.
The defense IT contract market continues to be highly competitive. Six organizations made bids for the work, while it was conducted by Army Contracting Command at Rock Island in Illinois. Winning the deal reflects how much weight defense authorities give specialized enterprise integration and cloud native software sustainment.
Avum’s scope of responsibilities according to the contract is to conduct software sustainment, capability delivery, microservices refactoring of the VCE business intelligence suite, and deployment of advanced secure contracting tools within five years.
Replacing old government software is never easy. Software dependencies established over decades are likely to bring new problems, and transferring highly classified procurement databases to microservices will require careful testing. (Not to mention that a cybersecurity compliance audit of the process is always an extra challenge to cope with.)
That said, transition leaders see refactoring projects as an inevitable step towards the future. As a result of this process, the streamlined VCE should offer the COs faster analytics and better data visualization capabilities.
