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Navigating a multi-cloud environment under the JWCC mandate
The cancellation of the JEDI contract marked the end of single-source vendor contracts and the beginning of a multi-cloud era.
By Melissa Palmer
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Pentagon closing in on $9B cloud contract award after scuttling JEDI
JWCC work is meant to connect the military’s most remote edge with its farthest headquarters, all while bridging classifications and other sensitivities.
DoD’s still got some JEDI ’splainin’ to do
There's a growing chorus demanding answers for the $10 billion cloud contract, and one big voice just joined.
By Amber Corrin
DoD extends deadline for its $10B cloud contract
The Pentagon extended the deadline for its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contracts after updates made to the request for proposals.
By Jessie Bur
JEDI cloud contract receives first protest
Oracle filed the $10 billion contract's first protest less than two weeks after the final request for proposals was issued.
By Jessie Bur
JEDI $10B final request drops – and it’s still single award
Defense brass are moving ahead with contentious plans for a single cloud vendor on the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.
By Amber Corrin
No surprise, cloud tops new Defense CIO’s priorities
DoD CIO Dana Deasy offered more specifics on the Pentagon's much anticipated JEDI contract.
By Mark Pomerleau
Heads in the cloud
The Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar JEDI contract has leaders across Washington sparring over the best cloud approach.
By Amber Corrin
Pentagon wants nuclear secrets out of the silos and into the cloud
New Pentagon-specific cloud infrastructure must be built to accommodate nuclear secrets, and hopefully the attendant risk.
By Kelsey D. Atherton
Pentagon used contracts that could suppress competition, watchdog finds
Forty percent of Pentagon contracts were of the type that could potentially limit competition, a government watchdog agency reports.
By Joe Gould
A proxy battle of innovation vs. legacy technology
The vigorous jousting among competitors over the Department of Defense's JEDI cloud contract is revealing a broader struggle between conflicting approaches to technology and to meeting future government computing needs.
By John B. Wood
NDAA Watch: 7 things to track in this week’s defense policy bill debate
Here are seven potential fights to watch in the latest version of the $717 billion fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act.
By Joe Gould