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DISA Awards Initial Task Orders Under $9 Billion Enterprise Cloud Program

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

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DISA Awards Initial Task Orders Under $9 Billion Enterprise Cloud Program

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) last week awarded its first task orders under its new Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) enterprise cloud computing program, with each contractor getting an initial slice of the pie. The task orders to Google [GOOG], Oracle [ORCL], Amazon Web Services [AMZN] and Microsoft [MSFT] are worth up to $3.8 million each and work began on March 24, DISA’s Hosting and Compute Center told Defense Daily on Wednesday. The task orders have a one-year base…

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