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Future of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud Contract

Future of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud Contract Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) canceled the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud solicitation and initiated contract termination procedures. The Department has determined that, due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conservancy, and industry advances, the JEDI Cloud contract no longer meets its needs. The Department continues to have unmet cloud capability gaps for enterprise-wide, commercial cloud services at all three classification levels that work at the tactical edge, at scale these needs have only advanced in recent years with efforts such as Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and the Artificial Intelligence and Data Acceleration (ADA) initiative. 

US Govt shelves US$10b JEDI cloud contract

The US Department of Defense is ditching its potentially US$10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing contract won by Microsoft in October 2019 an award that was mired in litigation filed by rival Amazon Web Services. The DOD today, in a press release, said that it had determined that “due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI cloud contract no longer meets its needs.” The DOD announced a new multi-vendor contract the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability saying it still requires enterprise-scale cloud capabilities. And it plans to solicit proposals for the contract from a “limited number of sources” namely Microsoft and AWS ”as available market research indicates that these two vendors are the only cloud service providers (CSPs) capable of meeting the department’s requirements.” But, as noted in its pre-solicitation notice, the DOD said it will immediately engage with industry and

DoD Kills JEDI, Pivots To Multi-Cloud

By   Brad D. Williams on July 06, 2021 at 5:39 PM WASHINGTON: A top critic of the Pentagon’s long-embattled 2019 single-source enterprise cloud computing contract believes the Defense Department is “moving in the right direction” with today’s announcement that it’s issuing a new multi-cloud, multi-vendor request for proposal (RFP) in October. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) RFP is being canceled, Acting DoD CIO John Sherman said, and the contract is being terminated. A new solicitation, dubbed the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC), will replace JEDI. Sherman said the decision reflects the fact that “[The DoD] landscape has evolved,” and JEDI no longer meets the department’s requirements.

The single vendor requirement ultimately doomed the DoD s $10B JEDI cloud contract – TechCrunch

The single vendor requirement ultimately doomed the DoD s $10B JEDI cloud contract – TechCrunch
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