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Cyber

Pentagon Cancels JEDI Cloud Deal With Microsoft, Pursues New Multi-Vendor Effort

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, July 6th, 2021

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Pentagon Cancels JEDI Cloud Deal With Microsoft, Pursues New Multi-Vendor Effort

The Pentagon announced Tuesday it has canceled the potential $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract with Microsoft [MSFT], and will instead go after a new multi-vendor effort with initial contracts to be awarded as early as next April. “The department has determined that, due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI cloud contract no longer meets its needs,” the department wrote in a statement. Microsoft originally beat out Amazon Web Services [AMZN] for…

Congress

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Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

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Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]