How will the DoD’s next multibillion-dollar IT contract fare after messy JEDI deal?
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The Pentagon is trying to acquire common IT services through the $11.2 billion Defense Enclave Services contract. (Peggy Frierson/Defense Media Activity)
Consider these two quotes about two contracts the Department of Defense says are key to modernizing networks and advancing its computing power:
“The war fighter is absolutely waiting for this.”
“It is one of the crown jewels that we have as part of our IT reform.”
The first quote is how former U.S. Defense Department Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy described the department’s need for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract in August 2019. More than a year and a half later, the enterprise cloud that was supposed to house data across all classification levels hasn’t been built despite a contract award in late 2019.