Pentagon moving nuke secrets to Cloud

hawki · May 15, 2018

"Pentagon Wants Cloud Secure Enough to Hold Nuke Secrets...

The Defense Department’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud will be designed to host the government’s most sensitive classified data, including critical nuclear weapon design information and other nuclear secrets...

...the winning company must be able to obtain the full range of top secret government security clearances, including Department of Energy “Q” and “L” clearances necessary to view restricted nuclear data...

...[T]he Defense Department’s requirement for individual “Q” clearances for personnel at the contractor that wins JEDI suggests the cloud may be able to 'host information pertaining to nuclear weapons or classified information pertaining to the deployment and utilization of nuclear weapons.'..."

https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-te...cloud-secure-enough-hold-nuke-secrets/148192/

ronjor · May 15, 2018

Doesn't seem to be very secretive.

RockLobster · May 16, 2018

Sounds like someone wants to make those secrets more vulnerable to hackers than they are already.

blacknight · May 16, 2018

I can't believe that Defense Department trusts the cloud, and for nuke matters ! What US-CERT thinks ??

hawki · May 16, 2018

ronjor said: ↑

Doesn't seem to be very secretive.
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"Pentagon eases secrecy over cloud contract...

The report was initially labeled “For Official Use Only,” restricting its public release. After complaints from congressional staff and an inquiry by Bloomberg News, Pentagon officials removed the restriction for everything except projected spending figures for the next five fiscal years..."

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/pen...cloud-contract-as-amazon-rivals-fret-1.527006

kdcdq · May 16, 2018

I know for a fact that the folks at Los Alamos In NM are NOT onboard with this line of thinking. Not one bit.

RockLobster · May 19, 2018

If they wanted to do a nuclear 9/11 that would be a good way to claim your "terrorists" got access to nuclear technology...

reasonablePrivacy · May 19, 2018

I fear more about close collaboration between government and military with cloud services, than leak of these documents.
If they would use a few layers of strong cryptography, USA-based cloud services it is going to be hard to pown. And those who can pown these services, are well-funded government agencies, who know how to build nuclear weapon and mostly have them already anyway.

guest · Jul 11, 2018

Tech Companies Jockey as Pentagon Says Cloud Contract Coming
Dana Deasy, the Pentagon’s new chief information officer, said Wednesday that publication of a final request for proposals isn’t far off.
July 11, 2018
http://www.itprotoday.com/premisecloud/tech-companies-jockey-pentagon-says-cloud-contract-coming

More than a month after the Pentagon initially planned to release a final call for proposals on its multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract, Defense Department officials are still working on requirements eagerly anticipated by companies including Amazon.com Inc. and Oracle Corp.

Dana Deasy, the Pentagon’s new chief information officer, said Wednesday that publication of a final request for proposals isn’t far off, but added that the Defense Department shouldn’t worry about arbitrary deadlines to get it out either. He also said the Pentagon is conducting a full review of the project, without giving more details.

While the Pentagon tinkers with its plans, tech companies continue jockeying for a piece of the multibillion-dollar contract.

Delaying the release of the contract requirements gives the Pentagon “time to ingest all of the concerns from industry,” Bach, the analyst, said. “They can bulletproof the RFP to make sure it doesn’t get further delayed.”
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guest · Jul 29, 2018

Pentagon’s Winner-Take-All Move on Cloud Contract Expected to Favor Amazon
The U.S. Defense Department issued a final request for proposals for a cloud services contract valued at as much as $10 billion.
July 26, 2018
https://www.itprotoday.com/amazon-w...all-move-cloud-contract-expected-favor-amazon

The U.S. Defense Department issued a final request for proposals for a cloud services contract valued at as much as $10 billion, opting for a winner-take-all competition that rivals say will favor Amazon.com Inc.

The project, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI, involves transitioning massive amounts of Defense Department data to a commercially operated cloud system. The initiative attracted widespread interest from technology companies struggling to catch up to Amazon in the burgeoning federal government market for cloud services.

“IBM has proudly supported the U.S. military for decades, and we look forward to submitting a thoughtful, comprehensive proposal for a JEDI cloud that will serve the long-term needs of America’s men and women in uniform,” Sam Gordy, general manager for IBM U.S. Federal, said in a statement.
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guest · Aug 7, 2018

Oracle files first JEDI protest
August 6, 2018
https://washingtontechnology.com/blogs/editors-notebook/2018/08/oracle-jedi-protest.aspx

Oracle Corp. has filed a protest objecting to the terms of the recently-released solicitation for the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract.

Not surprisingly, Oracle is objecting to the Defense Department’s plan to make a single award for JEDI. The company argues in its protest filed at the Government Accountability Office that a single award is irrational and violates procurement laws.

Right now, the leading contenders for JEDI in its current form appear to be Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and IBM.

There also is the possibility that others will file pre-award protests objecting to the solicitation.
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EASTER · Aug 7, 2018

Oracle Corp. has filed a protest objecting to the terms of the recently-released solicitation for the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract.

Not surprisingly, Oracle is objecting to the Defense Department’s plan to make a single award for JEDI. The company argues in its protest filed at the Government Accountability Office that a single award is irrational and violates procurement laws.

Right now, the leading contenders for JEDI in its current form appear to be Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and IBM.

There also is the possibility that others will file pre-award protests objecting to the solicitation.
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Oh boy. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and IBM

guest · Sep 4, 2018

Pentagon Extends JEDI Proposal Deadline
September 4, 2018
https://www.nextgov.com/it-moderniz...-jedi-proposal-deadline/150991/?oref=rf-river

The Pentagon pushed back the deadline to accept bids on its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract to Oct. 9 following another amendment to the procurement issued Aug. 31.

In an updated FedBizOpps posting, the Pentagon attributed the extension—from Sept. 17 to Oct. 9—to the “content of the amendments and offeror requests,” in an effort to give companies a chance to incorporate any changes in the procurement to their technical bids.
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guest · Sep 10, 2018

Oracle Files Second Supplemental Protest Against JEDI
The company continues to keep the legal pressure on the Defense Department.
September 10, 2018
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-te...al-protest-against-jedi/151142/?oref=rf-river

The filing—made with the Government Accountability Office—is the second supplemental protest Oracle has made since it filed its original bid protest against JEDI on Aug. 6, less than two weeks after the Pentagon bid the contract out.

As with its previous supplemental protest, which is an amendment to its original protest, it is unclear on what grounds Oracle is further protesting the contract.

The second supplemental protest comes after the Pentagon extended the deadline to accept bids for JEDI from Sept. 17 to Oct. 9. The Pentagon announced that decision Aug. 31, and attributed it to the “content of the amendments and offeror requests.”
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guest · Oct 9, 2018

Google will not bid for the Pentagon’s $10B cloud computing contract, citing its “AI Principles”
October 8, 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/g...-computing-contract-citing-its-ai-principles/

Google has dropped out of the running for JEDI, the massive Defense Department cloud computing contract potentially worth $10 billion. In a statement to Bloomberg, Google said that it decided not to participate in the bidding process, which ends this week, because the contract may not align with the company’s principles for how artificial intelligence should be used.

Google Cloud believes that a multi-cloud approach is in the best interest of government agencies, because it allows them to choose the right cloud for the right workload.”
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guest · Oct 11, 2018

IBM Files Bid Protest Against Pentagon’s JEDI Contract
IBM becomes the second company to file a pre-award bid protest against the Pentagon’s multibillion cloud contract
October 10, 2018
https://www.nextgov.com/it-moderniz...otest-against-pentagons-jedi-contract/151908/

IBM filed a bid protest Wednesday against the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract.

“JEDI’s primary flaw lies in mandating a single cloud environment for up to 10 years,” said Sam Gordy, General Manager for IBM Federal, in a blog post announcing the protest.
“Leading global enterprises want clouds that are flexible, provide access to the best applications from multiple vendors, and can smoothly transition legacy systems. JEDI is a complete departure from these best practices.”
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guest · Oct 15, 2018

Microsoft employees use open letter to urge company not to get involved in JEDI military project
October 15, 2018
https://betanews.com/2018/10/15/microsoft-do-not-bid-on-jedi/

Now Microsoft employees have published an open letter expressing their concerns about JEDI, the secrecy it is shrouded in, and the potential for it to cause harm or human suffering. The letter has a simple message: "Microsoft, don't bid on JEDI".

The letter asks that Microsoft take notice of the views of its employees just like Google, Amazon and others took notice of theirs: [...]

The employees say that Microsoft risks betraying its own principles if it gets involved with JEDI. They ask that the company is not drawn by the allure of short-term profits and instead stands "by its own ethical compass".
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guest · Oct 26, 2018

Microsoft defends bid for US military contract
The company says that despite ethical issues, working in the field gives Microsoft influence over how new technologies are used
October 26, 2018
https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-defends-bid-for-us-military-contract/

Despite employee objections, Microsoft executives stand firm on bidding for US military contracts, says a report in The Wall Street Journal.

"We want the people of this country and especially the people who serve this country to know that we at Microsoft have their backs," Smith wrote in a blog post published Friday. "They will have access to the best technology that we create. We don't ask or expect everyone who works at Microsoft to support every position the company takes."

Smith said that if employees want to work on a different project, they can try to transfer. He also made it clear that Microsoft won't shy away from potential ethical issues that may arise from working with the military.

"It's important for people across the tech sector to recognize that ethical issues are not new to the military," Smith wrote.
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guest · Jan 26, 2019

Pentagon stands by finding of no conflict of interest in JEDI RFP process
January 25, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/25/pentagon-stands-by-finding-of-no-conflict-in-jedi-rfp-process/

A line in a new court filing by the Department of Defense suggests that it might reopen the investigation into a possible conflict of interest in the JEDI contract RFP process involving a former AWS employee.
The story has attracted a great deal of attention in major news publications, including The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, but a Pentagon spokesperson has told TechCrunch that nothing has changed.

The DoD completed the RFP process at the end of October and is expected to choose the winning vendor in April.
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WSJ
The Defense Department is examining whether Amazon Web Services created a conflict of interest by hiring a former Pentagon employee who helped develop a cloud-computing procurement contract.
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guest · Apr 11, 2019

Amazon and Microsoft go head-to-head for Pentagon cloud contract
IBM and Oracle are already out of the race
April 11, 2019
https://www.itproportal.com/news/amazon-and-microsoft-go-head-to-head-for-pentagon-cloud-contract/

The hunger games for the Pentagon cloud computing contract continue, with Amazon and Microsoft down to the final two now fighting it out for the lucrative $10 billion deal.
The news was confirmed by Reuters this Thursday morning, which says that IBM and Oracle are now officially out of the picture.

According to the US Department of Defence, Amazon and Microsoft have ‘met the minimum requirements outlined’ in the Request for Proposal, meaning they can continue competing for the DoD’s Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI, for short.
The department’s spokesperson Elissa Smith said earliest a contract was likely to be awarded was mid-July.
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guest · Jul 12, 2019

Oracle Loses Challenge to $10 Billion Pentagon Cloud Contract
July 12, 2019
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-court-challenge-to-10-billion-cloud-contract

Oracle Corp. lost its legal challenge to the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract on Friday, clearing the way for the government to award the contract to Amazon.com Inc. or Microsoft Corp.
The decision is a major blow to Oracle, which risks losing a share of its federal defense business if the Pentagon awards the contract to another cloud company. The ruling eliminates a headache for the Pentagon, which has been fending off challenges to its winner-take-all strategy in the cloud contract for more than a year.

Amazon Web Services, which was also a defendant in the case, said in a statement that the company “stands ready to support and serve what’s most important – the DoD’s mission of protecting the security of our country.”
The Pentagon didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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hawki · Aug 1, 2019

"After ...[The White House] cites Amazon concerns, Pentagon re-examines $10 billion JEDI cloud contract process

The White House has instructed newly installed Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper to re-examine the awarding of the military’s massive cloud-computing contract because of concerns that the bid would go to Amazon, officials close to the decision-making process said. The 11th-hour Oval Office intervention comes just weeks before the winning bid was expected to be announced and has now left a major military priority up in the air, the officials said,...

The ... directive represents a departure from what is usually a scripted bureaucratic process...

As recently as Sunday, the Defense Department defended its plans to move ahead with a single company for what is known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), a $10 billion contract that would be one of the government’s most expensive information technology procurements ever..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...loud-contract-process/?utm_term=.16e1cf393826

guest · Aug 12, 2019

DOD’s Deasy sets record straight: JEDI has not been ‘paused’
August 11, 2019
https://www.fedscoop.com/dana-dasy-jedi-review-no-pause/

After the Pentagon announced Esper’s decision to review the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) acquisition earlier this month, reports trickled out that the contract was put on pause. Deasy met with reporters Friday to dispel that narrative, saying, “There is not a pause on the overall JEDI program, meaning that we are still a number of weeks away from completion of the overall evaluation.”

The review process and the evaluation of bid proposals from the remaining two contenders — Microsoft and Amazon Web Services — will move forward “in parallel” he said.
However, a JEDI award won’t happen this month. Deasy had said recently that the contract could possibly be awarded sometime in August, at the earliest.

“One thing I’ve been consistent on from the beginning is, we’ve got to get this right. So we are not going to rush to a decision,” Deasy said.
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guest · Aug 13, 2019

Come on...only US army can come up with such a name

guest · Aug 26, 2019

Oracle appeals federal court’s JEDI dismissal
August 26, 2019
https://www.fedscoop.com/oracle-appeals-federal-courts-jedi-dismissal/

Oracle will take its protest of the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud contract to a federal appeals court.

The company filed a motion Monday to appeal a U.S. Court of Federal Claims decision last month denying Oracle’s lawsuit against the Department of Defense’s development and handling of JEDI.
In a statement, Oracle focuses on the judge’s issue with the single-award justification as its grounds for appeal.

“Federal procurement laws specifically bar single award procurements such as JEDI absent satisfying specific, mandatory requirements, and the Court in its opinion clearly found DoD did not satisfy these requirements.”
This will mark Oracle’s third time protesting the contract.
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