USDA Forest Service: Fighting Fires with a Modern Procurement System
Presenters:
Jess Firshein
Managing Director
Accenture Federal Services
Ben McGrane
Assistant Director for Incident Procurement Operations (IPO)
USDA Forest Service
Description:
To prevent and battle wildfires which have been growing in size and duration, the USDA Forest Service manages 5,000 contracts and spends $2B in wildland firefighting and incident response per year. Despite “bots” that automate legacy workflows, processes remain disjointed and still rely on multiple systems and data sources, manual data retrieval, and redundant data entry. Watch this session to explore how they plan to revolutionize the incident procurement program to ensure future success by streamlining spending chain workflows and developing a more efficient approach to managing and sharing data.
