The Section of Defense has issued a formal solicitation for Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle to bid for its Joint Warfighting Deject Capability (JWCC) contract.

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The JWCC contract is a replacement for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, which aimed to give the military meliorate access to data from remote locations using deject engineering. Unlike JEDI, the JWCC allows the Pentagon to select multiple cloud providers.

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The JEDI contract, which was expected to be worth $10 billion over 10 years, was awarded to Microsoft in October 2019 and subsequently protested by Amazon Web Services, who argued that the Pentagon'south procedure was flawed, unfair, and improperly influenced by and then-President Donald Trump's dislike of Amazon and its and then-CEO Jeff Bezos. In July, the agency canceled the contract, explaining that information technology no longer met its needs due to "evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances."

While the value of JWCC contracts are unknown, the Department of Defense anticipates a multi-billion dollar ceiling volition be required.

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The Pentagon intends to award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts to "all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) that demonstrate the capability to run across DoD's requirement."

However, the General Service Administration'due south find emphasizes that AWS and Microsoft are the simply ones currently capable of meeting those requirements, including providing deject services at all levels of national security classification.

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A Department of Defense spokesperson told FOX Business the award timeframe volition occur according to the acquisition schedule developed by the agency, with a goal of awarding IDIQ contracts in the third quarter of fiscal yr 2022. Each IDIQ contract is expected to take a three-year base period and two yearlong option periods.

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Oracle spokesperson Deborah Hellinger told FOX Business the software giant is "delighted to be included in the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability RFP."

"We are committed to delivering the highest level of security, performance, and value in enterprise cloud applications and cloud infrastructure in back up of DOD's Warfighter mission," Hellinger added.

Meanwhile, Google spokesperson pointed Fox Business to a blog post from concluding week in which the tech giant said it would "admittedly bid" on the JWCC contract if given the opportunity.

"If selected as one of the compliant vendors, nosotros will proudly work with the DoD to help them modernize their operations following the procedure we accept in place for working with our customers, including the processes we've developed around our AI Principles," Google adds in the post.

An AWS spokesperson told FOX Business organisation that the visitor's delivery to "supporting our nation's armed services and ensuring that our warfighters and defence partners take access to the all-time technology for the best value is stronger than ever."

"We look forward to continuing to support the DoD'south modernization efforts and edifice solutions that assist accomplish their critical missions," the spokesperson added.

Microsoft did not immediately return FOX Business' request for annotate.