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Shanahan: Giant Cloud-Computing Contract Not ‘Winner-Take-All’

Tuesday, April 24th, 2018

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Shanahan: Giant Cloud-Computing Contract Not ‘Winner-Take-All’

Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan

Deputy Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan is defending plans to award a single contract for migrating its information technology service to a cloud, because the award is not, in fact, a sole-source deal.The first company to snag an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract through the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) initiative will perform cloud migration services unopposed for a period of two years and account for 10 percent to 20 percent of the department’s overall computing services, according to Shanahan.“The cloud…

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