We entered 2021 at the seeming peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, but with the optimism that vaccines — and normalcy — were soon to follow. We close 2021 at a new peak of Covid-19. And optimism? That’s harder to come by. But Greater Washington’s business community endures. Businesses large and small rode the wave and did what they always do — they acquired or were sold, developed, went public, overcame obstacles. In 2021, D.C.-area companies did their best work in the worst of circumstances. These are our choices for the top 10 local business stories of the year. This is No. 10.
There was a time when the Department of Defense’s proposed $10 billion enterprise cloud contract seemed to have nine lives.
Again and again, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) withstood every legal challenge thrown its way, as well as withering public scrutiny and speculation about its procurement process.
But then Pentagon officials watched its potential 10-year, $10 billion cloud…
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