{"id":51312,"date":"2023-08-03T20:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/08\/03\/pentagon-cio-pushes-defense-agencies-to-tap-9-billion-cloud-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:27:12","slug":"pentagon-cio-pushes-defense-agencies-to-tap-9-billion-cloud-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2023\/08\/03\/pentagon-cio-pushes-defense-agencies-to-tap-9-billion-cloud-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon CIO pushes defense agencies to tap $9 billion cloud contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Pentagon\u2019s top technology official instructed defense agencies, military services and other offices to prioritize a $9 billion cloud computing arrangement, including when cutting deals concerning the nation\u2019s most sensitive data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense Department Chief Information Officer John Sherman <a href=\"https:\/\/dodcio.defense.gov\/Portals\/0\/Documents\/Library\/NextStepRationalizeCloudUse.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">in a memo made public Aug. 2<\/a> said a number of existing cloud services will transition to the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, or JWCC, upon expiration. New agreements made for secret and top-secret classifications should adopt JWCC, as well, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/smr\/cloud\/2023\/03\/15\/pentagon-close-to-making-first-awards-on-9-billion-cloud-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\">JWCC contract vehicle<\/a> provides the DoD an unprecedented ability to directly acquire commercial capabilities and services at three classification levels \u2026 and from strategic and operational headquarters to the tactical edge,\u201d the memo states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe JWCC is not a cloud management or hosting environment,\u201d it continues, \u201cbut rather a key vehicle in the department\u2019s technology arsenal for the acquisition of services for current and future DoD component managed and controlled cloud environments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5793\" height=\"3867\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CIO-John-Sherman-TechNet-keynote.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"John Sherman, the Pentagon chief information officer, speaks May 3, 2023, at the TechNet Cyber conference in Baltimore, Maryland.\" class=\"wp-image-112103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CIO-John-Sherman-TechNet-keynote.jpg.jpg 5793w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CIO-John-Sherman-TechNet-keynote.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CIO-John-Sherman-TechNet-keynote.jpg.jpg?resize=768,513 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CIO-John-Sherman-TechNet-keynote.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,684 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CIO-John-Sherman-TechNet-keynote.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1025 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CIO-John-Sherman-TechNet-keynote.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1367 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5793px) 100vw, 5793px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Sherman, the Pentagon CIO, speaks at an event in Maryland. (Colin Demarest\/C4ISRNET)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon in December tapped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/smr\/cloud\/2022\/12\/15\/cloud-friendly-air-force-has-eyes-on-pentagons-jwcc-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle<\/a> for its landmark JWCC. The contract is considered the follow-up to the failed $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure venture. JEDI, as it was known, was scuttled in 2021 after allegations of political interference and lengthy litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The four companies are competing for JWCC jobs spanning unclassified, secret and top-secret designations, and are guaranteed only $100,000. Each won work in March in an initial round of awards worth millions of dollars, officials said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherman\u2019s directions for JWCC usage include exceptions for the National Reconnaissance Office, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. They rely on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2022\/12\/27\/pentagon-intelligence-community-eye-cloud-collaboration\/\" target=\"_blank\">intelligence community\u2019s Commercial Cloud Enterprise<\/a>, or C2E, which was awarded in 2020. It features the same vendors as JWCC, plus IBM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherman last year described getting JWCC up and running as \u201camong my very top priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon in December 2022 selected Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle for its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, or 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