Salesforce secures $5.6 billion contract to develop agent-ready cloud platform for the U.S. Army

The technology giant has signed a decade-long deal to deploy its Missionforce cloud system, aiming to lay the groundwork for future autonomous AI capabilities within the military.

Salesforce has secured a 10-year, up-to-$5.6 billion contract with the U.S. Army to deploy its Missionforce national security platform, positioning the company’s cloud analytics as the underpinning for the service’s longer-term ambitions to adopt agentic artificial intelligence.

Acc...

ording to Salesforce’s announcement, the agreement was awarded through Computable Insights LLC, a Salesforce subsidiary focused on defence work, and is structured as an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity arrangement with a five-year base period and an optional five-year extension. The $5.6 billion figure is a contract ceiling rather than a guaranteed sum, the company noted.

Salesforce described Missionforce as a unified cloud system intended to consolidate personnel, logistics and operational data into a single analytics environment, streamline workflows and create an “agent-ready” architecture that could support future AI agents. “This new contract … will operationalize Missionforce across the Army and DOW, delivering trusted data and seamless interoperability, and supporting the DOW’s transformation into an agentic enterprise,” Kendall Collins, CEO of Missionforce and Government Cloud, said in the company release.

Company materials emphasise that Missionforce is built on Salesforce’s Government Cloud Plus – Defense, a platform designed to meet stringent U.S. defence compliance standards such as FedRAMP High and NIST SP 800-171 and to handle data at DoD Impact Level 5. The vendor says the environment offers dedicated infrastructure and enhanced monitoring intended to permit secure deployment of applications for defence customers.

Industry reporting and government-contract coverage describe the deal as part of a broader push within the Department of War to prepare for agentic AI, rather than immediate deployment of autonomous decision-making systems. According to GovConWire and other trade outlets, the award is intended to accelerate the Army’s ability to exploit data and create the technical foundations for agentic capabilities across planning, personnel management and readiness functions. TechRepublic and other analysts note the Army plans to apply the platform across recruiting, training, logistics and case management to reduce administrative burden on soldiers and civilian staff.

The Salesforce announcement sits against a backdrop of active DoD exploration of agentic AI. The Army’s own technical literature has recommended adoption paths for agentic systems, and the Pentagon previously contracted Scale AI in March 2025 to help bring agentic tools into planning and operations alongside vendors including Anduril and Microsoft. Those earlier moves indicate the Army’s interest predates Salesforce’s contract and that multiple suppliers are engaging on complementary aspects of the modernisation effort.

Salesforce has worked with the Army before, integrating cloud tools into the Army Human Resources Command and the Army Accessions Information Environment. The company and some government accounts point to improvements in recruiting metrics during 2025 following those projects, even as high attrition remained a concern for the force.

While Salesforce frames Missionforce as the foundation for an eventual agentic enterprise, the company’s statement stops short of claiming agentic AI will be fielded under this contract immediately. Reports and the company release consistently position the work as creating interoperable data and analytics capabilities that would enable later adoption of agentic technologies, should the Army choose to proceed.

Salesforce did not provide additional comment beyond its release when approached for this coverage.

Source: Noah Wire Services