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Cyber

Pentagon Finding Interim Cloud Options For Near-Term Efforts While JEDI Is Delayed, DoD CIO Says

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020

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Pentagon Finding Interim Cloud Options For Near-Term Efforts While JEDI Is Delayed, DoD CIO Says

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

The Pentagon is working with the services and combatant commands to find interim cloud solutions for near-term programs while work on its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure tactical cloud remains paused due to legal delays. Dana Deasy, the department’s chief information officer, told reporters on Wednesday that although the Pentagon reaffirmed Microsoft [MSFT] as the winner of JEDI over Amazon Web Services [AMZN] earlier this month he does not have a definite date for when a court-ordered stay on the program…

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