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$51,102,542

Department of Justice·Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons

to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

justiceexpiring · 79d· period of performance ends in 79 daysONGOING · 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

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In plain English

Latest increment on IBM's 2021 contract to modernize SENTRY prison management systems and migrate federal prison operations to cloud infrastructure.

Sub-sectors
federal-prison-systemsit-modernizationcloud-migration
Why this matters

Modernizes federal prison management systems used across all Bureau of Prisons facilities, critical to inmate tracking and operations.

Supply-chain signal

Deepens federal prison operations' dependency on IBM cloud services for mission-critical case management and inmate data systems.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-10. Cost: $0.009434.

Period of performance
Start
2021-09-24
End
2026-09-30
Status
expiring · 79din 79 days
Sources

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