Trends Report

The Rise Of JWCC Is A New Hope For Multicloud

Goodbye, Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI); Hello, Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC)

Jeffrey Hammond
 and  four contributors
Aug 05, 2021

Summary

In July 2021, following years of extensive legal battles, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced the cancellation of its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract. This event marked a bitter end to the fight over the DoD’s single-vendor contract to Microsoft Azure and a heavy blow for Microsoft. With its multicloud requirements, the new proposed contract, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC), represents a major win for all public cloud providers. This report outlines the problems that plagued JEDI and the developments the industry can expect as the DoD rolls out new requirements.

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