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Senate NDAA gives marching orders for Pentagon's JEDI cloud

FedScoop: The Senate Armed Services Committee, like its counterpart in the House, has set some requirements in its version of the 2019 defense authorization bill for the Defense Department’s massive acquisition of commercial cloud services, hoping to see the department get its ducks in a row for a smooth migration.

Whereas the the 2019 House National Defense Authorization Act threatens funding of the Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure commercial cloud acquisition without proper reporting on the acquisition, the Senate’s draft bill is much more supportive of the contract — foremost requiring the department take the necessary steps, like adding “advanced commercial network capabilities,” to prepare for the unprecedented cloud migration and ensure that it’s successful in the long-term.

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