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Pentagon Releases Final RFP For $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Project

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, July 26th, 2018

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Pentagon Releases Final RFP For $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Project

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The Pentagon on Thursday released the final version of its proposal for the 10-year, $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud project, with officials sticking to the effort’s single-award contract structure despite industry pushback.The final JEDI RFP arrives after officials missed an original May deadline and the Department of Defense’s new CIO completed a full review of the program’s acquisition structure.“DoD has an incredibly unique and complex technology estate and finite set of talent and resources,” DoD CIO Dana…

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