On July 26, the Department of Defense released the final request for proposals for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract. Darth Vader has not yet weighed in on the JEDI proposal, but Yoda would call the protracted process leading up to the RFP itself a lesson in how to do not procurement in the federal government.
The JEDI program is a multiyear effort to modernize DOD’s IT systems into a cloud services solution. With an estimated value of $10 billion over 10 years, the winning contractor will be expected to deliver an enterprise-level commercial cloud solution, including infrastructure as a service and platform as a service, to all defense agencies and military branches.
