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Hicks Signals DoD Readying New Path Forward For Enterprise Cloud Solution Within Next Month

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, June 21st, 2021

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Hicks Signals DoD Readying New Path Forward For Enterprise Cloud Solution Within Next Month

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks reacts to the start of her Senate confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C. Feb. 2, 2021. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)

The Pentagon could offer details in the next month on how the department will move forward on an enterprise cloud computing solution, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said Monday, while the current Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract remains stuck in legal proceedings. “We’re very actively looking at our options right now, and we have a good sense of what our needs are and we’re working through what the potential solutions are. We’ll be moving forward in a direction over…

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