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Matt Ashare
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By Matt Ashare Verified| CIO Dive Verified Big government contracts, especially with the military, aren’t just a boon for private contractors — they’re a patriotic feather in the cap of public-facing companies. The Pentagon announced Wednesday its decision to award up to $9 billion in military modernization funds to all four of the cloud companies selected to compete for Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contracts. JWCC has a base period of three years, with optional extensions that could see the deal stretch into June 2028.
By Matt Ashare Verified| CIO Dive Verified The U.S. Department of Defense awarded major contracts for military cloud spending to AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday as part of its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability framework. The hybrid contracts carry a shared spending ceiling of $9 billion, with CSPs guaranteed no more than $100,000 each, Lt. Gen. Robert J. Skinner, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, said during a press conference on Thursday.
By Matt Ashare Verified| CIO Dive Verified Big government contracts, especially with the military, aren’t just a boon for private contractors — they’re a patriotic feather in the cap of public-facing companies. The Pentagon announced Wednesday its decision to award up to $9 billion in military modernization funds to all four of the cloud companies selected to compete for Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contracts. JWCC has a base period of three years, with optional extensions that could see the deal stretch into June 2028.
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