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

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, March 29th, 2022

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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…

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