Air Force taps Salesforce’s Army contract for personnel modernization work
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Nick Wakeman
The enterprise license agreement is part of a $5.6 billion vehicle and will bring agentic artificial intelligence to workforce and logistics management.
Salesforce has signed a new $72 million enterprise license agreement with the Air Force to modernize personnel management and other functions using artificial intelligence.
This is part of a $5.6 billion contract Salesforce and the Army inked in January. The idea was that the vehicle would be open to all of the Defense Department.
The agreement with the Air Force is meant to enhance situational awareness and unify business functions like personnel management, Salesforce said Wednesday.
The Air Force will use Salesforce's Missionforce National Security offering, which includes artificial intelligence tools.
“Leveraging enterprise-wide contract vehicles accelerates our procurement timelines, optimizes resource allocation, and ensures our Airmen and Guardians are equipped with the agile technology necessary for today's dynamic mission environments," said Keith Hardiman, deputy chief information officer for the Air Force.
The Air Force is using the Salesforce agreement to consolidate contracts, reduce the number of contract actions and achieve volume-based savings.
The agreement also aims to help the Air Force connect its digital infrastructure to gain a view across personnel recruiting and logistics.
The Air Force will also be able to pilot implementation of Salesforce’s Agentforce, an agentic AI solution, which is intended to enable automation of workflows and support decision-making at the edge.