Pentagon delays cloud computing contracts until December

According to the latest report, the US Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Sherman said that the Pentagon originally planned to award the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract to enterprises in April. Delayed until December, the contract could be worth as much as $9 billion.

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JWCC is equivalent to the “successor” to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing contract, an IT modernization program that aims to build a massive, common commercial cloud platform for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Moreover, Trump had hoped that a cloud computing provider would take on JEDI, but the Biden administration scrapped that plan and instead, like the private sector, spread the project across multiple companies.

It is reported that the US Department of Defense is currently evaluating proposals from four companies, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services. Sherman said the workload of evaluating multiple proposals at the same time was tedious and would take longer than expected.

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