House defense appropriators seek to fence funding for Pentagon's multibillion-dollar cloud programs

By Justin Doubleday / June 6, 2018 at 2:29 PM
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee is moving to prevent the Defense Department from migrating to two planned commercial cloud environments until the Pentagon provides more information on its cloud strategy and spending plans. The subcommittee’s fiscal year 2019 defense appropriations bill released June 6 would not allow DOD to spend any funds migrating data and applications to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) and the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions cloud computing services, respectively, until at least 90 days after the...

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