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DoD Opens Competition For Multi-Billion Dollar Commercial Cloud Contract

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, March 7th, 2018

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DoD Opens Competition For Multi-Billion Dollar Commercial Cloud Contract

The Department of Defense issued a draft solicitation Wednesday for its potential multi-billion dollar Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud services project aimed at improving data analytics and security across all facets of the department. DoD officials held an industry day for the massive JEDI project, which aims for a full cloud migration centered around commercial Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service platforms, and released a draft request for proposal on FedBizOpps later on Wednesday.The project will…

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