The award advances the Pentagon’s effort to mature its War Data Platform, a clearinghouse of battlefield information that AI applications can crunch to advise troops on potential next moves and speed up wartime decisions. Accenture beat out four other bidders vying for the contract, according to the federal contract tracker HigherGov. The War Data Platform began as part of the Pentagon’s Advana data-sharing project, which launched as a tool for financial audits in 2018. “The War Data Platform has actually already been quite successful,” Stanley said, according to GovCIO Media and Research. “We were able to incorporate dozens of new feeds in real time … and get data at the speed of conflict.”