Pentagon reaches out to Microsoft, AWS, Google, and Oracle for JWCC
(Windows Phone Central)

The U.S. Department of Defense is looking to avoid another legal battle surrounding cloud contracts. What you need to know The U.S. Department of Defense has reached out to Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle in regard to its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract replaces the JEDI contract, which was canceled after a long legal dispute. The Department of Defense explains that it will negotiate to award a contract to all cloud service providers that can meet the U.S. government`s requirements. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) expects to award several Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contracts to cloud service providers in the near future. These lucrative agreements would be for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) initiative that replaced the JEDI contract. While the DoD anticipates that Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will receive contracts, it has reached out to other cl...