The US Department of Defense (DOD) has cancelled its contract with Microsoft on the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing programme, with department officials opting to walk away from a multibillion deal to integrate the Pentagon's legacy computer and networking into the cloud.

“The department has determined that, due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI cloud contract no longer meets its needs,” according to a 6 July Pentagon statement. In light of the cancellation, Pentagon officials noted the department “continues to have unmet cloud capability gaps for enterprise-wide, commercial cloud services at all three classification levels that work at the tactical edge”, the statement added. Those gaps have been exacerbated by the department's ongoing work on the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative and the stand up of the artificial intelligence (AI) data accelerator programme, officials added.

An employee monitors computer server racks at a cloud computing data centre in Hangzhou, China. (Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has cancelled its contract with Microsoft on the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing programme, with department officials opting to walk away from a multibillion deal to integrate the Pentagon's legacy computer and networking into the cloud.

“The department has determined that, due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI cloud contract no longer meets its needs,” according to a 6 July Pentagon statement. In light of the cancellation, Pentagon officials noted the department “continues to have unmet cloud capability gaps for enterprise-wide, commercial cloud services at all three classification levels that work at the tactical edge”, the statement added. Those gaps have been exacerbated by the department's ongoing work on the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative and the stand up of the artificial intelligence (AI) data accelerator programme, officials added.

An employee monitors computer server racks at a cloud computing data centre in Hangzhou, China. (Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has cancelled its contract with Microsoft on the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing programme, with department officials opting to walk away from a multibillion deal to integrate the Pentagon's legacy computer and networking into the cloud.

“The department has determined that, due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI cloud contract no longer meets its needs,” according to a 6 July Pentagon statement. In light of the cancellation, Pentagon officials noted the department “continues to have unmet cloud capability gaps for enterprise-wide, commercial cloud services at all three classification levels that work at the tactical edge”, the statement added. Those gaps have been exacerbated by the department's ongoing work on the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative and the stand up of the artificial intelligence (AI) data accelerator programme, officials added.

An employee monitors computer server racks at a cloud computing data centre in Hangzhou, China. (Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has cancelled its contract with Microsoft on the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing programme, with department officials opting to walk away from a multibillion deal to integrate the Pentagon's legacy computer and networking into the cloud.

“The department has determined that, due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI cloud contract no longer meets its needs,” according to a 6 July Pentagon statement. In light of the cancellation, Pentagon officials noted the department “continues to have unmet cloud capability gaps for enterprise-wide, commercial cloud services at all three classification levels that work at the tactical edge”, the statement added. Those gaps have been exacerbated by the department's ongoing work on the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative and the stand up of the artificial intelligence (AI) data accelerator programme, officials added.

An employee monitors computer server racks at a cloud computing data centre in Hangzhou, China. (Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has cancelled its contract with Microsoft on the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing programme, with department officials opting to walk away from a multibillion deal to integrate the Pentagon's legacy computer and networking into the cloud.

“The department has determined that, due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI cloud contract no longer meets its needs,” according to a 6 July Pentagon statement. In light of the cancellation, Pentagon officials noted the department “continues to have unmet cloud capability gaps for enterprise-wide, commercial cloud services at all three classification levels that work at the tactical edge”, the statement added. Those gaps have been exacerbated by the department's ongoing work on the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative and the stand up of the artificial intelligence (AI) data accelerator programme, officials added.

An employee monitors computer server racks at a cloud computing data centre in Hangzhou, China. (Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has cancelled its contract with Microsoft on the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing programme, with department officials opting to walk away from a multibillion deal to integrate the Pentagon's legacy computer and networking into the cloud.

“The department has determined that, due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI cloud contract no longer meets its needs,” according to a 6 July Pentagon statement. In light of the cancellation, Pentagon officials noted the department “continues to have unmet cloud capability gaps for enterprise-wide, commercial cloud services at all three classification levels that work at the tactical edge”, the statement added. Those gaps have been exacerbated by the department's ongoing work on the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative and the stand up of the artificial intelligence (AI) data accelerator programme, officials added.

An employee monitors computer server racks at a cloud computing data centre in Hangzhou, China. (Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)