Tag: DOD

December 16, 2020

It’s been more than two years since the Pentagon announced its $10 billion, decade long JEDI cloud contract, which was supposed to provide a pathway to technological modernization for U.S. armed forces. While Microsoft was awarded the contract in October […]

May 20, 2020

Google Cloud on Wednesday announced that a unit within the US Defense Department (DoD) will use its Anthos platform to build a multi-cloud management platform for detecting and responding to cyber threats across the globe. The contract is specifically with […]

April 15, 2020

The U.S. Department of Defense’s Inspector General says that Microsoft’s win of the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract doesn’t seem to have been influenced by President Donald Trump. In its investigation report, made public on April 15, […]

February 20, 2020

Behold: An epic struggle between archrivals; a vengeful world leader; global military dominance; vast oceans of thinking machines; billions at stake and not least – Jedi’s! Is there another Star Wars episode coming out? Nope, it’s just the feds trying […]

January 4, 2016

The US Department of Defense cannot show cost benefits, or even adequate security from cloud services, because it has no standard definition for what they are, and no central account of cloud contracts, according to an audit by the DOD […]