There is a battle afoot, one you might not have heard about yet, but it involves a high-stakes winner-take-all contract for the Department of Defense’s cloud contract. It could involve billions of dollars and when a humongous sum of money meets a set of powerful tech companies, intrigue can’t be far behind. The story even has a Star Wars reference with the Pentagon dubbing the project the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI for short).
The High-stakes Battle For The Pentagon’s Winner-take-all Cloud Contract
Ron Miller, TechCrunch
Fri, 04/06/2018 - 8:40am
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