The Pentagon has announced it is awarding its cloud computing network contract to Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft, The wide-ranging contract will see its value total $9 billion over multiple stages until an estimated June 2028 completion date. The four companies will play a part in the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) – which is set up to share unclassified, secret, and top-secret data with military personnel worldwide – in a move that sees a U-turn on the Trump Administration proposition that one company should be in charge of the project. Pentagon cloud contractInitially awarded to Microsoft in 2019, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) was later challenged by Amazon and Oracle, both of which make up part of the revised announcement.
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