Posted on 07/09/2019 8:43:01 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Amazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first “war cloud” computing system. But Amazon’s early hopes of a shock-and-awe victory may be slipping away.
Formally called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure plan, or JEDI, the military’s computing project would store and process vast amounts of classified data, allowing the Pentagon to use artificial intelligence to speed up its war planning and fighting capabilities. The Defense Department hopes to award the winner-take-all contract as soon as August. Oracle and IBM were eliminated at an earlier round of the contract competition.
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JEDI! Cool acronym. The Pentagon knows acronyms.
Microsoft ain’t much better. Will be used to track gun owners, Christians, and people not taking the mark of the beast. Will be easier to eradicate.
What makes you say that ‘mark of the beast’ remark?
Will there be a plan for mandatory implants of Social Security data?
Amazon would crash systems supporting the troops if policy differed from BEZOS’s leftist destroy America First view.
Deciphering the meaning of posts is nearly impossible at times due to grammar, carelessness, or dare I say— intellect. It’s tough, then you get blamed for mentioning it. Never mind....
I am surprised IBM isn’t in the mix.
So very true. I have tripped over that same rock many-a times!
Cloud...in the T flicks it was SkyNet.
...rolling my eyes...
Some here think a tattoo of your woman’s name is the mark of the beast.
Watched too many horror movies.
AWS vs Azure - federal government versions. The hyperscalar battle is going on in the enterprise, and I guess in the military, too. I’m glad to see GCP isn’t mentioned, however.
It should be done entirely in-house.
Read the last sentence in my excerpted post.
Lol! Well, some women do voluntarily wear Tramp-Stamps, right over their bums. Maybe that’s the answer to a man saying he’s now ‘landed & branded’.
Yeah, that is surprising. I thought they would have been in the thick of it.
LOL
Why not IBM or Net App or EDS?
Name one person who stated that.
I think because of the sheer size of what the Pentagon wants.
I think that building their own is a huge endeavor, but the best way to go in terms of control and security.
It’s not like the military is going to do e-commerce where it makes sense to be in the cloud since all your sales/transactions/customers are online. No, they just need the overall infrastructure.
Hell, I worked on the Defense Data Network back in the 80s. We used TCP/IP on it. This was BEFORE the Internet.
Well, it’s mostly just a big data center. Allows the DoD to greatly reduce its secured networks’ hardware footprint for cost, management and security benefits. DISA tried it but, ummm, it was DISA. Time to bring in the professionals to implement that whole Outcome Based Performance Standards thingy.
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