Pentagon splits $9 bn cloud contract among Google, Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft

The Pentagon awarded $9 billion worth of cloud computing contracts to Alphabet Inc's Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle on Wednesday. Pentagon The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability is the multi-cloud successor to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, which was an IT modernization project to build a large, common commercial cloud for the Department of Defense. The separate contracts, which carry a notional top line of $9 billion, run until 2028 and will provide the Department of Defense with enterprise-wide, globally available cloud services across all security domains and classification levels, the contract announcement said. U.S. Navy Commander Jessica McNulty, a Department of Defense spokesperson, said in a statement the JWCC was a multiple-award procurement composed of four contracts with a shared ceiling of $9 billion.