How about a JEDI update. That program is dead, and the new Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program is the replacement. The Department of Defense is soliciting bids – intending to upgrade its technology capabilities with the benefit of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analysis.
In a notice released on Friday, the DoD announced that it would solicit bids from Google Cloud and Oracle in addition to JEDI finalists Microsoft and AWS, which are still likely to pick up significant portions of the work.
Why do we care?
The reboot of this one will be very different – multi-cloud is much more mainstream and a different administration.
As noted by Protocol, the JEDI cancellation left out IBM as a hyper scale cloud provider and highlighted that AWS and Microsoft are the two players who meet all the criteria. This rebid gives Google and Oracle a chance.
The DoD is very far behind here – this should have happened, and the contract delay in an environment of ransomware is far less than ideal. The US government is trying to accelerate its response on tech – and that sets far-reaching policy. And why we care.