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House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) says the House version of the 2019 defense authorization bill is fencing off funds for the JEDI contract until Congress gets some concrete answers on cloud.
Allen Federal Business Partners President Larry Allen said OTAs exist for a reason: a broad understanding that defense acquisitions don't move fast enough.
Senate NDAA, House appropriations bill each would impose new preconditions on the Pentagon's controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure
Industry sources say focus on the JEDI cloud procurement by Congress and interest by the new DoD CIO could further delay the final solicitation.
John Sherman, the Intelligence Community’s chief information officer, wanted to tamp down any rumors about why the IC signed a deal to bring Microsoft’s cloud into the mix.
Although the Coalition for Government Procurement commends DoD for its transparency in making its decision/rationale publicly available, its report raises additional questions and concerns related to DoD's single-award strategy.
Pentagon's new rationale for JEDI: A multiple-award contract would slow the process of migrating military computing to the cloud.
Celero Strategies President and CEO Stan Soloway and Lohfeld Consulting CEO Bob Lohfeld join host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss a number of contracting issues, including the procurement climate under President Donald Trump. May 7, 2018
Industry says the Defense Digital Service is wedded to an approach to move to commercial cloud and the lack of open and transparent discussions is causing concerns.
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan says there has been a lot of misconceptions about the JEDI contract.
The second draft RFP, answers to questions and the cover memo raise more questions regarding the Defense Department's justification for a single award strategy.
After receiving one thousand comments on the first one, the Defense Department decided to use the same strategy for its second RFP.
Chris Howard, the vice president of federal sales for Nutanix, explains why a multi-cloud environment for the military makes more sense.
Among more than 1,000 questions about DoD's upcoming JEDI contract, dozens of vendors questioned its single-award approach. But the Pentagon isn't changing its strategy.