House appropriators still ‘concerned’ about JEDI

It's the latest thread in the Department of Defense's growing interest in artificial intelligence.

Leaders think the adoption of AI, among other things, will help services learn to talk about and embrace data.

The agency has three new OTAs coming, including an evolution of the military's joint situational awareness system.

The marketplace is meant to help "small, innovative companies that, frankly, don't either have the resources or the sophistication in terms of the contacts to reach sources of capital."

Once the case is settled, DOD would soon after be cleared to make an award to one of the two vendors — Microsoft and AWS — that meet the procurement’s “competitive range” requirements.

The new complaint comes after the Pentagon concluded last month that there are no conflicts of interest surrounding the ongoing Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) procurement.

The Department of Defense’s ambitious multicloud strategy will scale faster and more securely using a flexible, open standards networking approach, a new report says.

It's an "energizing" and "accessible" product, Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord said Friday.

The Pentagon needs a contractor with expertise in cloud computing to support its unified communications office, particularly as it anticipates launching DEOS sometime in the next year.

A "majority" of the companies that received OTAs will be working with the Department of Defense for the first time.