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Pentagon

Pentagon To Now Award $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract In Late August, DoD CIO Says

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, June 25th, 2019

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Pentagon To Now Award $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract In Late August, DoD CIO Says

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

The Pentagon’s chief information officer told reporters Tuesday a contract for the department’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud program is expected to be awarded in late August. Dana Deasy, the DoD CIO, said a source selection between Amazon [AMZN] Web Services and Microsoft [MSFT] will be made independently from the outcome of a Federal Claims Court case in which tech firm Oracle [ORCL] is currently challenging the JEDI contract’s requirements. “Right now, they are two disconnected events,”…

Congress

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