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As the company awaits a decision on the embattled JEDI contract, its president told senators the contract-dispute process could use streamlining.
After years of pain over the legal battles related to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract, Microsoft is calling on Congress to take a look at the protest process.
During a Tuesday Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on emerging technologies and national security, Microsoft President Brad Smith said it’s time to examine the protest process because it does not keep up with the speed of technological innovation. Smith’s remarks come as continuing legal troubles threaten to
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Some defense support agencies missed the deadline to complete migrating workloads to the Defense Department’s on-premise, cloud-based infrastructure services offering, according to a Defense Information Systems Agency official.
Per a 2018 memo, Defense agencies and DOD field activities, known as the DAFAs, were required to migrate all workloads to milCloud 2.0 by the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020. John Hale, DISA’s Cloud Portfolio office chief, told
Nextgov in an email some DAFAs were granted extensions from the DOD chief information office to complete migrations and that DISA is continuing to work with these agencies on migration. While DISA declined to provide details regarding why extensions were needed and which components received extensions, Hale said the number of workloads migrating to milCloud 2.0 continues to grow as a suite of changes c