:

Cyber

Pentagon Delays Awards For Potential $9 Billion JWCC Cloud Program To December

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, March 29th, 2022

SHARE:

Pentagon Delays Awards For Potential $9 Billion JWCC Cloud Program To December

Mr. John Sherman, Department of Defense chief information officer (DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley)

The Pentagon has delayed awarding contracts for its potential $9 billion multi-vendor Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) enterprise cloud computing effort until December, department officials told reporters Tuesday. John Sherman, the department’s chief information officer, said the decision will allow the department more time to interact with the four vendors competing for the program as proposals are being assessed. “We were aiming to make awards as soon as next month, in April. But as we’ve gotten into this, and leaned…

Space

NRO Nominee: “We Have To Look Differently At Our Requirements”

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has said that it has launched more than 200 proliferated low Earth orbit satellites in the last two years to supplement the costly high-end systems […]

Congress

Congress Needed Pentagon’s Iran Supplemental Request ‘Yesterday,’ HASC’s Wittman Says

A senior member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) said Wednesday that Congress needed the Pentagon’s Iran supplemental funding request “yesterday,” noting the ongoing lack of details from the […]

Space

Space Force Eyes Nearly $1.5 Billion for Space Data Network Backbone in Future Reconciliation Bill

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) plans to request nearly $1.5 billion for the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone in a future fiscal 2027 reconciliation bill. Last week, Space Force’s Space […]

Congress

Warren And Sheehy Renew Call for “Right to Repair” In NDAA

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Timothy Sheehy (R-Mont.), two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), are renewing their call for “Right to Repair” language in the National […]