The Department of Defense has scaled back a $950 million contract awarded to REAN Cloud LLC in February to $65 million after the deal underwent extensive scrutiny including Oracle’s filing of a protest to the contract later that month. The Pentagon cited a narrowing of the project’s scope for the reduction in funding. When the…
The Department of Defense released a set of answers to frequently asked questions about its initiative to accelerate cloud adoption within the department. Guided by the Cloud Executive Steering Group (CESG), the DoD is looking for solutions for storing unclassified, classified, and top-secret data in the cloud. Known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI)…
The Defense Department wants to accelerate its cloud adoption. Frustrated with the slow pace of migration, Pentagon officials are in active talks with cloud providers to revise, or even completely replace, internal rules for cloud security. The DoD is one example of a federal agency trying in recent years to jumpstart its cloud adoption, as…