Here at CHESS as always the safety of our customers and our Army family around the world has been and remains our first priority. We are diligently following DA guidance. Please be assured that we will continue to provide continuous support to CHESS customers. The CHESS office will continue to serve customers and operate as usual during this time. Please email all Help Desk questions to armychess@army.mil, in lieu of call, this will help facilitate a speedy response.
DoD has determined a high or critical risk associated with a particular entity, product, or service. Procurement officials must ensure that managers of National Security Systems and associated items of supply do not make contract awards that involve any entity, product, or service within the NSS Restricted List. DoD policy and instructions to access the NSS Restricted List can be found at Supply Chain Risk Management.
Ready to start the Application Migration Process? Have your applications been assessed for Cloud Readiness? Contact the Army Application Migration Business Office (AAMBO) to get access to the Application Migration Pre-Assessment Tool (AAMPT) to begin.
A potential security vulnerability has been identified with certain versions of Synaptics touchpad drivers that impacts all Synaptics OEM partners. For additional context, see the following Synaptics Security Bulletin: https://www.synaptics.com/company/blog/touchpad-security-brief. For resolution regarding impacted HPI Federal laptops, see the following HPI Federal Security Bulletin: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05827409
AIT and aRFID Products/Services Now Available Through CHESS IT E-MART AIT and aRFID IDIQ Contracts that provide commercial hardware, software, and Technical Engineering Services (TES) to authorized users worldwide are now administered by PL CHESS. The TES aspect of the IDIQ Contracts involves integration, implementation, and training offered by the associated Contractor. All IDIQ Contract information could be found under the “Hardware” drop-down tab, select AIT-RFID Contracts.
Army Java SE users, download your entitlement info sheet below. These entitlements are available to you under the Oracle Java SE Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) for the Oracle Java Page. Java ELA Entitlements
CB-40 under ADMC-3 is OPEN. The ordering period will be open from 01 June through 30 September 2023.
Service Contract Labor Standards (SCLS) The ITES-3S labor categories are considered bona fide executive, administrative, professional, and/or computer labor and are generally exempt from the Service Contract Act (SCA). To the extent that any labor is subject to the SCA and is within scope of a Task Order and the IDIQ, the Ordering Contracting Officer must identify under a separate CLIN on the task order and apply wages as required under FAR Subpart 22.10, Service Contract Labor Standards.