{"id":50605,"date":"2023-05-04T15:33:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/05\/04\/first-secret-task-orders-received-for-pentagons-9b-cloud-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:51:01","slug":"first-secret-task-orders-received-for-pentagons-9b-cloud-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/industry\/2023\/05\/04\/first-secret-task-orders-received-for-pentagons-9b-cloud-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"First \u2018secret\u2019 task orders received for Pentagon\u2019s $9B cloud contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BALTIMORE \u2014 The first task orders with \u201csecret\u201d designations are in the works for the U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s premier cloud computing contract, officials said, with military services, combatant commands and other national security entities expressing interest in the commercial offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pentagon in December picked Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle<\/a> for its $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, or JWCC, the follow-up to the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure deal, or JEDI, which foundered in 2021 after allegations of political interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four companies are competing for JWCC jobs spanning unclassified, secret and top-secret designations, and are guaranteed only $100,000. Each tech giant won work in March in an initial round of awards, which were worth millions of dollars, officials said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, those involved with the cloud capability have been \u201cpinged constantly\u201d from a \u201creally robust mix\u201d of prospective customers, according to Sharon Woods<\/a>, the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency Hosting and Compute Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn terms of the task orders, we\u2019re seeing both unclassified and secret requirements, and we have some folks that are early in the process that are interested in the top secret, as well,\u201d she said May 3 at the AFCEA TechNet Cyber conference in Baltimore. \u201cSo we are seeing both interest and operational at all three classification levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t