This is the contract you've been looking for: Pentagon releases JEDI bids The Pentagon has finally opened the bidding for its major cloud contract, which could be worth some $10bn – and is to be awarded to one vendor. Winning the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) programme – which will cover all branches of the military and run for a maximum of 10 years – will be a major coup for any …
>>bid for a one-hour in-person Q&A with a Pentagon exec<<
Bidding to talk to the customer pre proposal, that's a new one!
This is before they get to provide a cloud for top secret level information at the lowest bid. Please tell me that this cloud isn't connected to the Internet.
As long as the bid includes meeting the single most important set of specifications in the entire US Government [caution pdf], what can possibly go wrong?
Wouldn't it be far more sensible to keep servers containing military information inside a military facility with strictly controlled access? I should think the average grunt employee of a commercial outfit might be tempted to clone a HDD or 10 if offered a large sum by someone in Iran, China or Russia.
Pentagon contract, check, lots of terms and conditions that can be endlessly quibbled, check, length of contract most likely negotiable, check, additional unforeseen expenses, check.
Final bill for taxpayers: $100 billion to $1 trillion over two decades or more. By that time, the original purpose and goals will be completely forgotten and one of the alphabet soup agencies will have hundreds of permanent staff to manage the contractors.
the original purpose and goals will be completely forgotten .... wsm
The provision of universal peace supplied by an almighty force and source of stellar domination with fiat dollar hegemony is next to impossible to forget if too many, and that may be as few as any, are to experience and suffer subjugation and deadly conflict in both public and personal and private and pirate space invasions rather than enjoying peace and prosperity with SMARTR IT Supply and Media Presentation of Future Grand Visions, ....... so that is one purpose and goal to be avoided embarking on at any and all costs.
* And that depends entirely upon the state and levels of intelligence in global leaders and the renegade rogue actors excluded from the pack.
And one has to realise there will always be friendly competition from both state and non-state actors which can, and therefore will, all too easily morph into hostile opposition, for the field is not uncrowded whenever the rewards for success are so monumental and attractive to an elitist few. 'Tis an Achilles Heel of Humankind.
Here be a UKGBNI Based JEDI competitor ........ https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/mod-annual-report-project-global-influence/
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