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House Appropriators Seek To Block Funds For DoD’s JEDI Cloud Program

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, May 20th, 2019

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House Appropriators Seek To Block Funds For DoD’s JEDI Cloud Program

House appropriators are seeking to block funding for the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud project until the department details a plan for eventually transitioning the program from a single vendor to a multi-cloud approach. Lawmakers on the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee released the full report of their proposed fiscal year 2020 budget on Monday detailing concern the 10-year JEDI effort will result in vendor lock-in and defies best practices for cloud computing implemented at other federal…

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