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Some of the world’s largest technology companies have been selected to deliver next-generation cloud capability to the Pentagon.
The US Department of Defense has awarded the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contracts to Amazon Web Services Inc (AWS), Google Support Services LLC, Microsoft Corporation, and Oracle.
Under the contracts — collectively worth up to $9 billion — the cloud service providers (CSPs) have been tasked with providing commercial cloud capabilities at the speed of mission, at all classification levels, from headquarters to the tactical edge.
These capabilities are expected to provide warfighters with:
The award of the JWCC contracts comes just weeks after the United States Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched “Constellation” — a pilot program aimed at accelerating the development of new cyber capabilities.
The program is expected to untap new capabilities by engaging in “high-risk, high-reward” cyber science and technology (S&T) research.
This would involve developing a “user-directed, incremental, and iterative pipeline”, designed to speed-up the creation, proving, adoption, and delivery of capabilities into CYBERCOM’s software ecosystem.
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