The Department of Defense on Wednesday awarded a $9 billion hybrid cloud computing contract to the world’s largest tech companies, all of whom had bid, protested, lobbied and bid again for the lucrative deal formerly known as JEDI.
Google Support Services LLC (NASDAQ: GOOG), Oracle America Inc. (NYSE: ORCL), Amazon Web Services Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) will share in what’s now called the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with the stated goal of providing the DOD with “enterprise-wide globally available cloud services across all security domains and classification levels, from the strategic level to the tactical edge.”
“The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability will allow mission owners to acquire authorized commercial cloud offerings directly from the Cloud Service Providers contract awardees,” according to the DOD’s announcement.
No funds were obligated as part of the award, as under an IDIQ contract,…
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