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Finally, a look inside DOD's commercial cloud JEDI contract

FedScoop: After months of anticipation, the Defense Department issued a draft solicitation Wednesday for its upcoming commercial cloud Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure procurement, giving eager vendors a look inside a defense IT contract that, in many ways, is unlike any that have come before it.

At a heavily attended industry day, top defense officials from the Pentagon's Cloud Executive Steering Group described the acquisition process for the massive cloud migration that will stretch across the entire expanse of DOD, focused primarily on commercial platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. The 10-year contract will likely be worth billions, though a specific price ceiling hasn't been floated publicly yet.

The time has come for the Pentagon to flip the expectations about its use of cloud, said Chris Lynch, director of the Defense Digital Service team leading the procurement.

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