Despite a pandemic that forced hundreds of thousands of personnel to remote offices and an assortment of legal actions involving some of the major cloud procurements, the Pentagon and intelligence community made major moves in cloud computing adoption in 2020.
In total, two multibillion-dollar cloud procurements were awarded in 2020—the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions and the intelligence community’s C2E contract—and another, the Pentagon’s Defense Enclave Services, opened for bids.
However, 2020 ends much the same way it began for the Defense Department’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure: under litigation. With JEDI on hold for more than a year, Defense agencies have looked elsewhere for enterprise cloud computing capabilities, turning instead to existing vehicles like the Air Force’s Cloud One contract. Here’s a look at what happened with some of the Defense Department’s and intelligence community’s cloud efforts.
JEDI
The one constant for the JEDI contract has been controversy. After the Pentagon awarded the contract to Microsoft in late 2019, Amazon Web Services filed suit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. As 2020 concludes, the contract remains the subject of litigation. In early 2020, the judge ordered a 120-day remand in the case wherein the Pentagon sought to correct issues identified by AWS in its protest. In September, the Pentagon awarded JEDI—potentially worth up to $10 billion if all options are exercised—to Microsoft, the second ..
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