
The Pentagon’s chief information officer on Thursday said the department will stand up the unclassified environment for the new Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud by mid-February, while also detailing several new artificial intelligence initiatives for 2020 including the first lethality-focused project. DoD CIO Dana Deasy provided the JEDI cloud update to attendees at an AFCEA event a day after the department formally kicked off its work with Microsoft [MSFT] on the potential $10 billion project. “Just yesterday was our…