{"id":21000,"date":"2022-03-30T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=21000"},"modified":"2022-04-04T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T15:00:18","slug":"pentagon-delays-9-billion-cloud-computing-contract-to-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/pentagon-delays-9-billion-cloud-computing-contract-to-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Delays $9 Billion Cloud Computing Contract To December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"0\">Pentagon has delayed the $9 billion cloud computing contract till December according to the Pentagon&#8217;s Chief Information Officer John Sherman.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"1\">Sherman stated that the extension was necessary due to the cumbersome task of evaluating multiple proposals simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">The Pentagon&#8217;s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract has seen proposals from top tech companies including Goggle, Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">Sherman noted that up to four winners could be selected with the combined value of the contracts coming to as much as $9 billion over five years if all options and extensions were exercised.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">The Trump administration wanted a single cloud-computing provider for the Department of Defense as outlined under JEDI. However, the Biden administration rejected such a move and scrapped it in favor of using multiple cloud providers.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">The JWCC is the multi-cloud successor to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI). It entails the development of a large, common commercial cloud for the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/pentagon-delays-cloud-computing-decision-december-official-2022-03-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon has delayed the $9 billion cloud computing contract till December according to the Pentagon&#8217;s Chief Information Officer John Sherman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21021,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions\/21021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}