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Briefing
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- Defense Cloud Contract – U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded cloud contract to Microsoft on October 25, 2019 to provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for JEDI project, besting top cloud provider Amazon
- JEDI Project – Stands for Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, $10 billion project in 10 years to modernize military technologies and move data to cloud
- Selection Process – Went through evaluation according to set criteria by Government Accountability Office and Court of Federal Claims and approved by DoD Inspector General
- Multi-Cloud Strategy – DoD plans to adopt multi-vendor, multi-cloud environment strategy, which means other cloud companies could be offered contracts as well
- Other Technologies – JEDI can enable U.S. military’s plans to increase use of remote sensors, semi-autonomous weapons and artificial intelligence
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Accelerator
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Market Disruption
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Sector
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Information Technology, Military and Security
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Function
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IT Infrastructure
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Organization
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Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Defense
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Source
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"DOD announces enterprise general purpose cloud contract award,"
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Conger, K., et al., "Microsoft wins Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI contract, thwarting Amazon",
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Bourne, J., "Microsoft beats AWS to $10bn JEDI contract: Defining multi-cloud and analysing administrative influence",
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Chan, R., "Microsoft just scored a huge upset over Amazon by winning the fierce battle over the $10 billion JEDI contract",
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Simonite, T., "Microsoft is the surprise winner of a $10b Pentagon contract",
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AcceleratingBiz analysis
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Original Publication Date
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October 25, 2019
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