Firstly, the project will be $9 billion instead of $10 billion. It is also still a multi-year contract but instead of being 10 years, it will now be just 5 years, running until 2028. By the way, JEDI is now becoming JWCC, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability project… slightly more ominous. “No funds are being obligated at the time of award; funds will be obligated on individual orders as they are issued. The purpose of this contract is to provide the Department of Defense with enterprise-wide, globally available cloud services across all security domains and classification levels, from the strategic level to the tactical edge. The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability will allow mission owners to acquire authorized commercial cloud offerings directly from the Cloud Service Providers contract awardees.”

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