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$51,102,542

Department of Justice·Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons

to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

justiceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2021 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2021-09-24·LATEST ACTION2026-04-09·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_15BNAS21FRCA00031_1540_47QTCK18D0014_4732
Award description

SENTRY MODERNIZATION AND CLOUD MIGRATION

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Modernize and migrate the Federal Bureau of Prisons' SENTRY system to cloud infrastructure.

Sub-sectors
federal-prisonsit-modernizationcloud-infrastructure
Why this matters

Critical modernization of legacy prison management systems supporting 150,000+ inmates across federal facilities nationwide.

Supply-chain signal

Major cloud migration contract signals BOP's shift toward commercial cloud providers; IBM positioned as primary systems integrator for federal corrections IT.

U.S.–China competition angle

Securing federal prison data and operations on U.S.-controlled cloud infrastructure reduces exposure to foreign intelligence collection on sensitive law enforcement systems.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002138.

Period of performance
Start
2021-09-24
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 134 days
Sources

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