Patient description: A 42-year-old healthy woman came to the clinic to have her flu shot in early October. She works in a rehab center and has no underlying disease. It's her first time getting the vaccine this year. She is married for 5 years and uses barrier methods of contraception. Her menstrual cycle is irregular. She does not smoke. She is not on any medications. She exercises regularly for 30 minutes a day at least 5 days a week. She has no history of allergies to any food or drugs. Her past surgical history is significant for tonsillectomy and she is otherwise healthy.

Clinical trial eligibility criteria: eligible ages (years): 18.0-999.0,  Recurrent Oral Cavity Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Recurrent Salivary Gland Carcinoma Salivary Gland Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Stage IVA Major Salivary Gland Cancer AJCC v7 Stage IVA Oral Cavity Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma AJCC v6 and v7 Stage IVB Major Salivary Gland Cancer AJCC v7 Stage IVB Oral Cavity Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma AJCC v6 and v7 Stage IVC Major Salivary Gland Cancer AJCC v7 Stage IVC Oral Cavity Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma AJCC v6 and v7 Patients must have pathologically confirmed adenoid cystic carcinoma; confirmation will be performed locally at each participating institution; cancers arising from non-salivary gland primary sites are allowed Patients must have measurable disease, as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded for non-nodal lesions and short axis for nodal lesions) as >= 2.0 cm with conventional techniques or as >= 1.0 cm with spiral computed tomography (CT) scan; to be considered pathologically enlarged and measurable, a lymph node must be > 1.5 cm in short axis when assessed by CT scan (CT scan slice-thickness recommended to be no greater than 5 mm) Patients must have locally advanced and/or recurrent and/or metastatic disease not amenable to potentially curative surgery or radiotherapy Patients must have increasing disease, defined as the presence of new or progressive lesion(s) on CT/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within 6 months prior to study enrollment and/or new/worsening disease-related symptoms; NOTE: this increase in disease is to be determined in the oncologist's best judgment and does not have to meet Response Evaluation in Solid Tumors (RECIST) Chemotherapy and radiation therapy must be completed at least 4 weeks prior to registration; if the last regimen included Carmustine (BCNU) or mitomycin C, it must be completed at least 6 weeks prior to registration; NOTE: any number of prior chemotherapy regimens is allowed, including no prior treatment Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status =< 2 (equivalent to Karnofsky >= 50%) Leukocytes >= 3,000/mm^3 Absolute neutrophil count >= 1,000/mm^3 Platelets >= 75,000/mm^3 Total bilirubin =< institutional upper limit of normal (ULN)  Patients who have received prior treatment with phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase, catalytic subunit alpha (PI3K), v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog 1 (Akt), or mechanistic target of rapamycin (serine/threonine kinase) (mTOR) inhibitors for recurrent/metastatic ACC Patients who are receiving any other investigational agents Patients with known brain metastases History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to MK-2206 or other agents used in the study Patients receiving any medications or substances that are major inhibitors or inducers of cytochrome P450, family 3, subfamily A, polypeptide 4 (CYP450 3A4) Diabetic patients with glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels of greater than 8%; NOTE: preclinical studies demonstrated the potential of MK-2206 for induction of hyperglycemia in all preclinical species tested; patients with diabetes or at risk for hyperglycemia should not be excluded from trials with MK-2206, but the hyperglycemia should be well controlled before the patient enters the trial Cardiovascular baseline Fridericia corrected QT (QTcF) > 450 msec (male) or QTcF > 470 msec (female) will patients from entry on study; NOTE: medications that may cause QTc interval prolongation should be avoided by patients entering on trial Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that, in the opinion of the investigator, would limit compliance with study requirements Pregnant women; NOTE: women of child-bearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 7 days prior to registration Women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation; should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately