Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI)

7 The Department of Defense (Department)’s lack of a coordinated enterprise-level

8 approach to cloud infrastructure makes it virtually impossible for our warfighters and leaders to

9 make critical data-driven decisions at “mission-speed”, negatively affecting outcomes. In the

10 absence of modern services, warfighters and leaders are forced to choose between foregoing

11 capabilities or slogging through a lengthy acquisition, rollout, and provisioning process. A

12 fragmented and largely on-premise computing and storage solution forces the warfighter into

13 tedious data and application management processes, compromising their ability to rapidly access,

14 manipulate, and analyze data at the home front and tactical edge. Most importantly, current

15 environments are not optimized to support large, cross domain analysis using advanced

16 capabilities such as machine learning and artificial intelligence to meet current and future

17 warfighting needs and requirements. Increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks from multiple adversaries, known and unknown,

20 demand that the Department develop an updated security framework. There is a clear and

21 immediate need for repeatable, verifiable, and measurable security from the physical level,

22 through the logical layer, and down to the datasets.

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24 This Statement of Objectives (SOO) describes the Department’s intentions for the Joint

25 Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud program and for the supporting contract to

26 acquire commercial infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offerings.

27 It is issued with the intent of maximizing offeror flexibility in developing solutions to meet

28 DoD’s objectives.

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