JWCC work is meant to connect the military’s most remote edge with its farthest headquarters, all while bridging classifications and other sensitivities.
Amid cheers and controversy, there are experts that say it does make sense for newly installed Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to review the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract.
Amazon Web Services Inc., a division of Amazon, and Microsoft Corp. are finalists for the contract estimated to be worth up to $10 billion over a decade.
Further delays of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure [JEDI] contract will harm the war fighter and hinder combatant command plans, according to DoD CIO Dana Deasy.
I don’t question industry’s ability to develop a secure, capable cloud infrastructure for the Pentagon. I do question how on earth the Pentagon screwed up the competition so badly.
Chris Lynch, the outgoing head of the Defense Digital Service, reflects on the last year of fights over the Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative cloud contract.