{"id":152251,"date":"2022-12-08T19:24:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T01:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/pentagon-picked-four-tech-companies-to-form-9b-cloud-computing-network"},"modified":"2022-12-08T19:24:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T01:24:55","slug":"pentagon-picked-four-tech-companies-to-form-9b-cloud-computing-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/pentagon-picked-four-tech-companies-to-form-9b-cloud-computing-network","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon picked four tech companies to form $9B cloud computing network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-picked-four-tech-companies-to-form-9b-cloud-computing-network.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a press conference that Ars attended today, Department of Defense officials discussed the benefits of partnering with Google, Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon to build the Pentagon\u2019s new cloud computing network. The multi-cloud strategy was described as a necessary move to keep military personnel current as technology has progressed and officials\u2019 familiarity with cloud technology has matured.<\/p>\n<p>Air Force Lieutenant General Robert Skinner said that this Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract\u2014worth $9 billion\u2014would help quickly expand cloud capabilities across all defense departments. He described new accelerator capabilities like preconfigured templates and infrastructure as code that will make it so that even \u201cpeople who don\u2019t understand cloud can leverage cloud\u201d technologies. Such capabilities could help troops on the ground easily access data gathered by unmanned aircraft or space communications satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJWCC is a multiple-award contract vehicle that will provide the DOD the opportunity to acquire commercial cloud capabilities and services directly from the commercial Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) at the speed of mission, at all classification levels, from headquarters to the tactical edge,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3239378\/department-of-defense-announces-joint-warfighting-cloud-capability-procurement\/\">DOD\u2019s press release<\/a> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press conference that Ars attended today, Department of Defense officials discussed the benefits of partnering with Google, Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon to build the Pentagon\u2019s new cloud computing network. The multi-cloud strategy was described as a necessary move to keep military personnel current as technology has progressed and officials\u2019 familiarity with cloud technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}