The Pentagon will not award a lucrative multi-year cloud-computing contract until newly appointed Defense Secretary Mark Esper completes a series of through reviews of the technology.
The JEDI deal, which could be worth up to $10 billion for services rendered over as many as 10 years, could go to either Amazon or Microsoft."Given that this is a large acquisition program, you would expect any new secretary taking over the DoD to want to have a strong understanding of any major acquisition program. So that's, exactly what we are doing here," Dana Deasy, the Pentagon's chief information officer, said in a Friday morning briefing with reporters.
"Our job right now is to educate the secretary as to why we need a cloud," Deasy said, adding that the Pentagon would not rush to award the colossal cloud contract known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. The JEDI deal, which could be worth up to $10 billion for services rendered over as many as 10 years, could go to either
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