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The impact of JEDI delays
As the Defense Department’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement winds through a complicated lawsuit, DOD CIO Dana Deasy said the delays will compound many of the problems JEDI seeks to solve.
He told House lawmakers during a hearing in February that “the longer we delay standing up a JEDI capability, the military services are going to need to go solve for mission sets, and they’re going to continue to stand up in their own individual environments. And I don’t see that as being beneficial over the long term to the department.”
Oracle has alleged that federal employees with ties to Amazon Web Services tilted the procurement to favor that company. A federal judge issued a stay in Oracle’s lawsuit in February, and DOD officials agreed to take a second look at possible conflicts involving Deap Ubhi, who formerly worked for AWS and the Defense Digital Service, based on new information that had recently come to light.
Pentagon officials were in the midst of a “competitive range process” to winnow down the JEDI bids by eliminating vendors that don’t meet the solicitation’s basic requirements. According to a partially redacted court filing, the JEDI contracting officer is delaying that process until the conflict-of-interest issue is resolved.
— Adam Mazmanian
Army plans new cloud
program office
On March 5, Army CIO Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford announced that the service would establish a cloud program office in the next 90 days to help the Army capitalize on the Defense Department’s cloud strategy. He said the move would better position the Army to take advantage of the general and fit-for-purpose cloud capabilities expected under the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure procurement.
In addition, two contracts will address support for cloud migration and shared services.
Crawford said the idea is to start with small efforts rather than a long-term plan to ensure sustained success. “A win for the Army 24 months from now is that we’ve grown the capacity, whether it’s contract writing or other areas, to institutionally learn how to do this,” he added. “And then we will be able to get to scale, and then we will be able to get to speed.”
— Lauren C. Williams