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Cyber

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…

Congress

With $1.5 Trillion Request, Army, Air Force, Navy’s Unfunded Lists Focus Solely On MILCON Projects

With the Trump administration’s push to massively increase defense spending to $1.5 trillion in fiscal year 2027, the Army, Air Force and Navy have eschewed submitting large unfunded priorities lists […]

Unmanned Systems

Bipartisan House Bill Would Give National Guard To Counter-Drone Authorities

Seeking to close gaps that may arise between state and local law enforcers in different jurisdictions, a bipartisan contingent of House members this week introduced a bill that would allow […]

Congress

Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

Munitions fired in the two-month old “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran represent most of the $25 billion cost the Pentagon has incurred thus far in the conflict, the acting Defense […]

Congress

Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

The Pentagon should be using Anthropic‘s recently announced Mythos artificial intelligence model to spot gaps in cyber security, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said on Tuesda. “I think the thing that […]