Lawmakers ease limit on DOD's cloud spending, but call for more transparency

By Justin Doubleday / July 24, 2018 at 3:21 PM
The final defense policy bill softens a proposed fence around funds for the Defense Department's cloud initiative, but lawmakers continue to warn the Pentagon to be more transparent about its plans. The fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill directs the DOD chief information officer to carry out a range of "key enabling activities" to support the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) commercial cloud services, according to the conference report released by the defense committees this week . Such activities include...

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