By Ross Wilkers,
Senior Staff Reporter

Accenture‘s U.S. federal subsidiary has won a potential 10-year, $789.5 million contract to help the Navy implement and rollout a new IT environment for sensing, detecting and analyzing activities across networks.

Five companies including Accenture Federal Services bid for the contract called SHARKCAGE. The program heavily emphasizes commercial and commercial off-the-shelf IT products for cybersecurity and analytics functions, according to the Pentagon’s Wednesday awards digest.

Solicitation documents describe the SHARKCAGE environment as a set of system resources that will operate in the same security domain and share in the protection of a single, common, continuous security perimeter.

The Navy envisions SHARKCAGE as covering shore, mobile expeditionary and afloat nodes that include shore infrastructure and permanently-installed shipboard components.

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