The most recently passed appropriations bill that funds the Department of Defense for the next year (FY 2019) includes a controversial funding rider. The rider involves a request for a proposal for cloud computing storage for defense data. But it seems to have been written exclusively with Amazon Web Services in mind, sidelining other potential providers.
As Tech Crunch reported on September 29, 2018: “The Pentagon is going to make one cloud vendor exceedingly happy when it chooses the winner of the $10 billion, ten-year enterprise cloud project dubbed the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI for short).” The contract is intended to “establish the cloud technology strategy for the military over the next 10 years” to capitalize on innovations such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and big data.
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