`Incredible Interest' in Cloud Computing Program.

• Date: 01 July 2018
• Author: Harper, Jon

The Pentagon has been flooded by responses to solicitations for a major cloud computing effort that could be worth billions of dollars to industry.

Although the department has not assigned a cost ceiling or dollar value to the joint enterprise defense infrastructure program, also known as JEDI, Bloomberg Government estimates that it will be worth about $10 billion after all the contract options are exercised.

It is expected to fulfill about 20 percent of the department's data hosting needs, said Chris Cornillie, a federal market analyst at Bloomberg Government.

Chief Defense Department spokesperson Dana White said there were more than 1,000 responses to the draft requests for proposals for JEDI.

"We have a lot more players in it," she told reporters at a recent Pentagon press conference. "This is something...