Pentagon Cloud Computing Enterprise Finally Moves Forward.

• Date: 01 January 2023
• Author: Carberry, Sean
• Published date: 01 January 2023
• Author: Carberry, Sean

ARLINGTON, Virginia--After years of awards, protests, revisions and delays, the Defense Department issued a $9 billion enterprise cloud contract it believes fixes flaws that led to the cancellation of its predecessor, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI.

Whereas the JEDI was a single-vendor award--that was protested and later scrapped--the Joint War-fighting Cloud Capability contract, or JWCC, has been awarded to Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle. Each vendor is guaranteed $100,000 and will then bid for task orders, explained Defense Department Chief Information Officer John Sherman during a press conference.

"What this brings us is direct access to these cloud service providers without going through an intermediary or reseller," he said.

The contract--which runs for three years with two option years--requires all four vendors to be able to provide services at...