DoD Washington Headquarters Services: ~$12.0M for IT, AI, and ML programmatic support (USAspending)
Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), which provides administrative and enterprise services to the DoD's headquarters, ordered about $12.0 million ($12,022,390) for information technology (IT), AI, and machine-learning (ML) programmatic support services. The recipient is Koniag IT Systems. It supports the organizational adoption of AI/ML across DoD's management backbone.
Contract key facts
- RecipientKONIAG IT SYSTEMS, LLC
- Contract value$12,022,390 (≈$12M)
- Awarding agencyDepartment of Defense
- Awarding sub-agencyWashington Headquarters Services
- Award typeDEFINITIVE CONTRACT
- Period of performance2025-03-11 〜 2025-09-10
- Contract ID (PIID)HQ003425CE012
Contract scope (original)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT SERVICES
Key points
- WHS (providing enterprise services to DoD headquarters) ordered IT/AI/ML programmatic support
- Value ~$12.0M, definitive contract, performance Mar–Sep 2025
- Recipient: Koniag IT Systems
- Not building a system, but support for adopting/operating AI/ML organizationally
- AI use being institutionalized at the DoD's management backbone
WHS is the agency that provides administrative and enterprise services — facilities, personnel, procurement, IT — across the DoD's headquarters functions (such as the Office of the Secretary of Defense, OSD).
Why it matters: the key here is "programmatic support." This is not a contract to build a specific weapon or system, but support for adopting, operating, and managing AI/ML as an organization — planning, requirements, project management, technical advice, and the like. Beyond cutting-edge one-off projects, this kind of "unglamorous support that embeds AI in an organization" is an important part of government AI procurement. It is an example of AI/ML use being institutionalized at the management-backbone (back-office) level of the DoD (details of the individual support are not in the source, so we do not speculate here).
Why it matters
An example showing that "support that embeds AI in an organization," not just cutting-edge one-offs, is a pillar of government AI procurement. Useful for tracking the institutionalization of AI in government/defense back offices and govtech trends.
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Sources (primary)
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- USAspending (award details)
- Contract ID (PIID)：HQ003425CE012