Microsoft is stepping up its government cloud campaigning just ahead of the closing of the bids for the Pentagon's $10 billion, winner-take-all JEDI cloud contract.
Google has dropped out of the race for the Department of Defense's $10 billion, 10-year cloud contract, but Microsoft is still all-in. In fact, Microsoft is stepping up its government-cloud campaigning just ahead of the October 12 deadline for request-for-proposal (RFP) submissions for the so-called JEDI contract.
The biggest cloud companies, including Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle, all have been jockeying forbidding position for the winner-take-all Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract. Google opted out of the JEDI bidding on October 8, claiming the contract might fail to align with its AI principles -- and (more importantly) because it didn't have some of the required government certifications.
Microsoft officials announced plans to expand its Azure Government Secret service for handling classified data last October but didn't provide at that time a deadline as to when the updated service would be available. Azure Government Secret is meant to provide multi-tenant cloud infrastructure and cloud capabilities to U.S. Federal Civilian, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and US Government partners working within Secret enclaves.
On October 11, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be speaking at Microsoft's Government Leaders Cloud Forum, an invitation-only event for government customers in Washington, D.C.
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