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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 going to bring desperately needed technology improvements and services to the agencies of the U.S. ...

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 classi...

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 clou...

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. Sh...