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“Cybersecurity must be built into system design, and the human defender should be included early on in cyber defense engineering and programmatic priorities for both system usability and training,” according to the Pentagon's chief tester.

Cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and nontraditional approaches to procurement are once again areas of legislative focus for Congress in the recently passed Fiscal Year 2022...

A new multibillion dollar solicitation for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) was formally sent to several major cloud providers on Friday. The solicitation was sent to...

July 8, 2021 On July 6, 2021, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it was terminating the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud project, which would have provided enterprise-wide commercial cloud capabilities for DOD’s classified and unclassified networks. Originally awarded to Microsoft in 2019, the JEDI program has been plagued by legal challenges. In resetting its approach to enterprise cloud capability, DOD announced a new cloud initiative: the Joint...

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The Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract to Re-Issue It as a Multi-Cloud Proposal By Todd R. Weiss July 6, 2021 Almost six months into President Joe Biden’s first term as president, the administration and the Pentagon have canceled the controversial $10 billion JEDI cloud modernization contract that was previously awarded to Microsoft Corp. in late 2019 under then-President Donald Trump. Since the contract was awarded, its status has been up in the air. U.S. military leaders wanted to get JEDI...

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...

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 c...

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 termin...