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DoD CIO Details Plans To Stand Up Initial JEDI Cloud By Mid-February, New AI Efforts In 2020

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

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DoD CIO Details Plans To Stand Up Initial JEDI Cloud By Mid-February, New AI Efforts In 2020

Pentagon CIO Dana Deasy. Photo: GW's Project for Media and National Security.

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…

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