{"id":16575,"date":"2018-11-02T20:40:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T20:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/11\/02\/after-hurricane-michael-the-air-force-moved-tyndall-afbs-contracting-data-to-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:48:57","slug":"after-hurricane-michael-the-air-force-moved-tyndall-afbs-contracting-data-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/industry\/techwatch\/2018\/11\/02\/after-hurricane-michael-the-air-force-moved-tyndall-afbs-contracting-data-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"After Hurricane Michael, the Air Force moved Tyndall AFB\u2019s contracting data to the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/10\/17\/as-tyndall-begins-recovery-a-hard-road-and-hard-questions-lie-ahead\/\" target=_blank>Hurricane Michael ravaged Tyndall Air Force Base in October<\/a>, airmen took on an unusual mission: recovering the servers base officials used to write, release and award contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reclaiming those servers \u2014 which contain data and contract vehicles used by Tyndall\u2019s two contracting squadrons to order everything for the base from supplies for the base to spare parts for aircraft \u2014 was a relatively minor victory when compared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/10\/30\/tyndall-air-force-base-officials-going-person-by-person-to-find-how-to-help-evacuees-power-sewage-restored\/\" target=\"_blank\">larger devastation faced by the installation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the mission was an important one in that it allowed remaining base personnel to manage contracts in the wake of the disaster, Air Force officials told Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/11\/02\/airmen-and-missions-returning-to-tyndall-but-questions-remain-on-fate-of-f-22s\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Wilson_Tyndall.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Air Force announces return of many airmen and missions to Tyndall \u2014 but questions remain on fate of F-22s<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said that all but about 500 evacuated airmen will return to Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida or the surrounding area in the next few months as the base continues recovering from Hurricane Michael.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cObviously, the base is devastated \u2026 but it\u2019s clear that there were open, existing contracts whether that was for simple things like cutting the lawn or delivering food to the chow hall on base,\u201d said Richard Aldridge, the Air Force\u2019s program executive officer for business and enterprise systems. \u201cSomeone has got to either terminate them, or put them on pause or make sure vendors are getting paid for work that they had already done before the contract.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a 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fleet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the days after the hurricane, airmen from Gunter Annex in Alabama worked with the state\u2019s civil air patrol to fly into the Florida panhandle, obtain Tyndall\u2019s servers and transport them back to Maxwell Air Force Base, where Gunter is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, the service transferred data from the legacy contract writing system into a new cloud-based system called CON-IT, short for Contracting Information Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The servers from Tyndall weren\u2019t necessary for base officials to use CON-IT, said Mike Allen, the Air Force\u2019s CON-IT program manager. But without them, contract officers would be left with no digital record of past contracts, and would be forced to draw up new contracts for mundane goods and services that would normally be bought through indefinite delivery\/indefinite quantity contracts that allow for multiple orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We were then able to migrate [the data from the servers] into CON-IT so that existing [indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contracts] or ordering vehicles were available to them, and all of their existing contracts would be available to work with,\u201d said Allen. \u201cThey weren\u2019t starting from a blank piece of paper.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And moving to a cloud-based environment means that Tyndall\u2019s contracting data will no longer be vulnerable to future disasters, Aldridge added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s ubiquitous; it doesn\u2019t matter where you are, you can access it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allen and Aldridge said the program office was able to transition Tyndall\u2019s data and train users on the new system, but were unable to provide details on how Tyndall\u2019s contracting officers had since used the new system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plan is to move all of the Air Force\u2019s current contract data from existing legacy systems to CON-IT by the end of 2019. 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