Pentagon Reaffirms $10B JEDI Cloud Award to Microsoft

The U.S. Department announced Friday it completed comprehensive re-evaluation of the JEDI Cloud proposals and determined that Microsoft's proposal represents “the best value” to the Government.

The company was awarded Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract valued $10 billion in October last year, which was the military’s largest information technology contract award in history. The contract will provide enterprise level, commercial Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to support U.S. DoD business and mission operations.

“While contract performance will not begin immediately due to the Preliminary Injunction Order issued by the Court of Federal Claims on February 13, 2020, DoD is eager to begin delivering this capability to our men and women in uniform,” the Pentagon said in a statement today.

Microsoft beat out Amazon, IBM, Oracle and Google to net the multi-billion dollar deal, central to the Pentagon’s efforts to modernize its technology. Industry analysts had earlier considered Amazon a “clear front-runner” with the firm having built cloud services for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) previously.