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ORDERS FLOODING IN ON PENTAGON’S $9 BILLION CLOUD CONTRACT

By Colin Demarest
 Aug 16, 06:50 AM

A person tries out a tablet computer next to a cloud computing and technology
symbol at a trade fair in Hanover, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

AUGUSTA, Ga. — More than a dozen orders worth hundreds of millions of dollars
have been awarded using the Pentagon’s landmark cloud-computing contract since
its launch less than one year ago.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, the director of the Defense Information
Systems Agency, on Aug. 16 said “13 different cloud task orders, over $200
million worth of value over the lifecycle,” have already been dished out with
the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability. An additional 13 are in the works, he
said.



“I think that’s a success story,” Skinner said at the AFCEA TechNet Augusta
conference in Georgia. “A whole bunch of different organizations are leveraging
JWCC to date.”

The Pentagon in December 2022 selected Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle to
furnish cloud services for the potential $9 billion JWCC, itself a successor to
the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure arrangement. JEDI, valued at $10
billion, was scuttled after allegations of political interference and
litigation.

The four companies are competing for jobs spanning unclassified, secret and
top-secret designations, and are guaranteed only $100,000 each. Skinner did not
say which companies won what orders. DISA serves as the Pentagon’s de facto
information technology authority and is intimately involved with the cloud deal.



Pentagon Chief Information Officer John Sherman in a memo made public earlier
this month instructed defense agencies, military services and other offices to
prioritize JWCC, including when dealing with the nation’s most sensitive data.
The memo also said a number of existing cloud services will transition to JWCC
upon expiration.

“We are working hand in hand with the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency and the
other service cloud offerings to see how we can work together to make sure the
department continues to get best value for their cloud capabilities and cloud
hosting,” Skinner said.

The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity JWCC comprises a three-year base
and one-year options, meaning work could be conducted through 2028.

About Colin Demarest

Colin Demarest is a reporter at C4ISRNET, where he covers military networks,
cyber and IT. Colin previously covered the Department of Energy and its National
Nuclear Security Administration — namely Cold War cleanup and nuclear weapons
development — for a daily newspaper in South Carolina. Colin is also an
award-winning photographer.

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