The Pentagon Issues Order 66 to Terminate JEDI

July 8, 2021

On July 6, 2021, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it was terminating the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud project, which would have provided enterprise-wide commercial cloud capabilities for DOD’s classified and unclassified networks. Originally awarded to Microsoft in 2019, the JEDI program has been plagued by legal challenges. In resetting its approach to enterprise cloud capability, DOD announced a new cloud initiative: the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC).

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