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Pentagon On Track To Release RFPs For New Multi-Vendor Cloud Effort By Oct. 15, Awards Next April

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, August 25th, 2021

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Pentagon On Track To Release RFPs For New Multi-Vendor Cloud Effort By Oct. 15, Awards Next April

John Sherman, DoD's CIO

The Pentagon remains on track to release direct solicitation requests for its new multi-billion dollar, multi-vendor Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) cloud computing effort around Oct. 15, a department official said Wednesday, with awards slated to be announced next April. John Sherman, DoD’s acting chief information officer, provided the update on the department’s latest enterprise cloud effort after canceling the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) in July, noting officials will continue conducting vendor research with eligible companies over the next…

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