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2021-07-08

Will msft or Amazon get the contract? Maybe both?

Six things to know about the Pentagon's defunct JEDI contract

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2021-07-08
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Hopefully not because it will become too big to manipulate the market and rules

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Data from many Pentagon programs remains isolated in separate systems that cannot easily share information such as targeting, or logistical data. Moving the Pentagon to the cloud is intended to make war-fighting easier and more seamless.</p>\n<p>WHY WAS JEDI REPLACED?</p>\n<p>While the Trump administration wanted a single cloud-computing provider for the Department of Defense as laid out under JEDI, the Biden administration canceled it in favor of parceling out the project to multiple firms. Such a move would put the military more in line with private-sector companies, many of whom split up their cloud computing work among multiple vendors to avoid being locked in to any specific <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>.</p>\n<p>WHAT WILL REPLACE THE JEDI CONTRACT?</p>\n<p>The Pentagon hopes to have the first awards by April 2022 for its new Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC), a multi-award, multi-vendor cloud contract for up to five years. 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Data from many Pentagon programs remains isolated in separate systems that cannot easily share information such as targeting, or logistical data. Moving the Pentagon to the cloud is intended to make war-fighting easier and more seamless.\nWHY WAS JEDI REPLACED?\nWhile the Trump administration wanted a single cloud-computing provider for the Department of Defense as laid out under JEDI, the Biden administration canceled it in favor of parceling out the project to multiple firms. Such a move would put the military more in line with private-sector companies, many of whom split up their cloud computing work among multiple vendors to avoid being locked in to any specific one.\nWHAT WILL REPLACE THE JEDI CONTRACT?\nThe Pentagon hopes to have the first awards by April 2022 for its new Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC), a multi-award, multi-vendor cloud contract for up to five years. 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