{"id":31540,"date":"2023-03-15T14:20:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2023\/03\/15\/pentagon-close-to-making-first-awards-on-9-billion-cloud-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:39:01","slug":"pentagon-close-to-making-first-awards-on-9-billion-cloud-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/cloud\/2023\/03\/15\/pentagon-close-to-making-first-awards-on-9-billion-cloud-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon close to making first awards on $9 billion cloud contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Pentagon will soon make its first awards under the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract as interest in commercial cloud services booms, according to a Defense Information Systems Agency official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defense Department in December <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/industry\/2022\/12\/07\/amazon-google-microsoft-and-oracle-picked-for-9b-jedi-successor\/?contentFeatureId=f0fzqnYxEHOgaK3&#038;contentQuery=%7B%22includeSections%22%3A%22%2Fhome%22%2C%22excludeSections%22%3A%22%22%2C%22feedSize%22%3A10%2C%22feedOffset%22%3A5%7D\" target=\"_blank\">selected Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle<\/a> for the closely watched JWCC contract, a follow-up to the failed $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rival tech giants are expected to compete for work tied to JWCC, which spans unclassified, secret and top-secret designations. Secret-level bidding opportunities, \u201cwhere the warfighter operates,\u201d will be made available in the coming weeks, said Sharon Woods, director of DISA\u2019s Hosting and Compute Center. Top-secret opportunities will come sometime early this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/industry\/2022\/12\/08\/pentagon-wants-competition-within-9b-joint-warfighting-cloud-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\">first batch of task orders<\/a>, if you will, that are in the pipeline and getting closer and closer to award,\u201d Woods said March 14 at an online event hosted by Defense One. \u201cAnd then we have other task order packages that are fast followers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks-battlefield-tech\/2023\/03\/13\/pentagons-historic-rd-request-has-billions-for-advanced-networks-ai\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6785328.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Pentagon\u2019s historic R&#038;D request has billions for advanced networks, AI<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The $145 billion request includes $1.4 billion for Joint All-Domain Command and Control and $687 million for the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs the demand to learn more about the contract just keeps growing larger, more and more task order possibilities come out from that,\u201d she said. \u201cOne of the things we did was stand up a hybrid cloud broker office. It is the single point of entry, the front door, into HACC to understand the full breadth of all of our capabilities and to learn about JWCC. And, I will say, those folks are really busy right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/3243483\/department-names-vendors-to-provide-joint-warfighting-cloud-capability\/\" target=\"_blank\">four companies<\/a> are each guaranteed only $100,000, though potential orders could total billions, according to terms of JWCC. The contract comprises a three-year base and one-year options, meaning work could be done through 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cloud capability is meant to serve as a backbone for the Pentagon\u2019s connect-everything-everywhere campaign, known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2. It is also designed to complement cloud initiatives already underway among the military services. The Air Force, for example, has Cloud One and its prospective successor, Cloud One Next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"8256\" height=\"5504\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7547365.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Woods, the Defense Information Systems Agency Hosting and Compute Center director, answers a question at a briefing on the Pentagon's award of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability in December 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-112001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7547365.jpg.jpg 8256w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7547365.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7547365.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7547365.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7547365.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7547365.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 8256px) 100vw, 8256px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sharon Woods, the Defense Information Systems Agency Hosting and Compute Center director, answers a question at a briefing on the Pentagon&#8217;s award of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability in December 2022. (Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza\/U.S. Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBy having that unification, I think it starts opening up doors on \u2018what does JADC2 to look like\u2019 globally. How do we move applications and data around? How do we achieve the interoperability?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hacc.mil\/Bios\/Article\/2848152\/sharon-woods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Woods said<\/a>. \u201cHow do we leverage things like APIs and data portability, and all of the things that we talk about, to achieve that interconnected web of all of our applications and data?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think using JWCC as a foundational contract starts moving toward that unification,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Woods previously said task order competition should take weeks or \u201cmaybe a few months,\u201d depending on the details and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/smr\/cloud\/2022\/12\/15\/cloud-friendly-air-force-has-eyes-on-pentagons-jwcc-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\">what officials learn along the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon in December tapped Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle for its highly anticipated 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