Pentagon justifies single-award approach to JEDI cloud

By Justin Doubleday / May 16, 2018 at 5:00 PM
The Pentagon says managing multiple commercial cloud providers would be too complex and slow down cloud migration in a new report justifying the Defense Department's plan to make a single award for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program. The Pentagon believes "under current acquisition law, if the department pursued multiple-award contracts for the JEDI cloud, each individual task order would be competed, thus being paced by DOD acquisition processes," according to the report to Congress. "That pace could prevent DOD...

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