“Through this pilot collaboration with Oracle, we will harness advanced cloud and AI technologies to digitalise and transform our operations,” Chief Executive of Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency Ng Chad-Son said.
By Carley WelchStrengthening the Aerospace and Defense industrial supply chain
Matt Magaña, president, Defense & National Security, Voyager Technologies explains how we must reshape the Aerospace and Defense industrial supply chain to make it stronger, smarter and more resilient.
Biden officials say their proposed regulation will streamline routine sales to allies while stopping dangerous leaks to China. Oracle, NVIDIA, and industry associations say it will cripple their business. But the final call is up to Trump.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Lt. Col. John Hall, DISA’s point man on the Pentagon’s massive cloud project, told Breaking Defense that having all four cloud providers at Impact Level-6 helps prevent vendor lock and keeps the companies “honest.”
By Carley Welch
Wiz’s focus on cloud security means it would likely play a part in the DoD’s JWCC Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability initiative.
By Carley Welch
According to a DISA spokesperson, each big-name JWCC vendor received an equal task order, with the value of $3.8 million for some early testing of the concept.
By Jaspreet Gill
In the network world, 2022 saw the return of the (non) JEDI, the bumpy road to JADC2 and real-world lessons from the cyber dimension of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
By Jaspreet Gill
JWCC is a multi-vendor, multi-cloud follow up to the infamous single-source Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, which was worth up to $10 billion and canceled in 2021.
By Jaspreet Gill
Advances in drone simulation bring mission training to quadcopters
The open QGroundControl software for drone control was improved with a fusion engine to integrate sensors and controls.
Google’s addition is somewhat surprising since, in recent years, the company has pulled away from DoD work due to internal pressure on executives from its workforce. The apparent omission of IBM is also notable.
By Brad D. Williams
If Amazon protests the Pentagon’s award of the $10 billion JEDI contract to rival Microsoft — and they almost certainly will — the president’s public feud with CEO Jeff Bezos will be central to their case.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Oracle says a federal judge called the procurement “unlawful” — but that word doesn’t actually show up once in his 60-page ruling. And that isn’t Oracle’s only problem.
By Barry Rosenberg
Overheated headlines to the contrary, the Defense Secretary is keeping all his options open on the controversial cloud computing contract.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The release of the full 60-page ruling provides new insights on how Judge Bruggink decided the case.
By Barry Rosenberg
Judge Bruggink ruled on two key grounds — technical requirements and conflict of interest — but was silent on a third: whether the Pentagon’s plan to award the JEDI contract to a single vendor is fundamentally flawed.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
What went wrong and what happens next? CSIS experts Mark Cancian & Andrew Hunter dive deep into JEDI.
By Mark Cancian and Andrew Hunter