Pentagon awards huge cloud contracts

The
Pentagon
on
Wednesday
awarded
cloud
computing
contracts
worth
US$9
billion
(A$13.4
billion)
each
to
Google,
AWS,
Microsoft
and
Oracle.

The
contracts
which
run
until
2028,
will
provide
the
Department
of
Defense
with
enterprise-wide,
globally
available
cloud
services
across
all
security
domains
and
classification
levels.

The
move
comes
months
after
the
Pentagon
had
delayed
its
decision
to
award
an
enterprise-wide
Joint
Warfighting
Cloud
Capability
(JWCC)
contract
earlier
this
year.

The
deal
puts
the
military
more
in
line
with
private-sector
companies,
many
of
whom
split
up
their
cloud
computing
work
among
multiple
vendors
to
avoid
being
locked
in
to
any
specific
one.

AndyC

Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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