Google Will Not Bid for Pentagon’s $10 Billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI

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Google has decided to not bid for the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract known as JEDI. According to published reports, a Google representative stated that the contract may violate principles or values the company recently set when taking on contracts that involve artificial intelligence (AI), and the contract scope may be
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Defense Contractors: Delayed Contract Awards Slows Payments, Revenue Gains For Businesses

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Congress has increased Defense spending in a number of areas, often exceeding what the DoD has requested. However, despite having a large amount of unobligated money, contract awards have been slow. Unobligated money is money allocated to a department or agency that has not yet been obligated to a specific program or purpose. A department’s
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Effective Military Supply Chain Management Key To Maintaining Readiness

Over the last thirty years, every branch of the military has gone through cycles where inventory management of key parts has failed to forecast supply needs, or maintain the necessary parts on-site to ensure a high level of equipment and mission readiness. The Department of Defense (DoD) manages several million secondary inventory items, such as
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Experts: DOD Cuts Will Reshape Contracting

“What’s happening now is a convergence of issues that are unprecedented, so we are going into a period of the unknown. What we’re tracking is the scale of these cuts. Ultimately everything is on the table.” Deniece Peterson, Deltek’s Senior Manager of Federal Industry Analysis, opened our DOD Virtual Roundtable: The War on Spending. The September event
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FOSE 2011: Cartwright Stresses Digital Modernization, Competitiveness as Keys to Military and Government

There will be more than a few perspectives offered today on U.S. Marine Corps General James “Hoss” Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Competitive Advantage for the Warfighter” opening keynote at FOSE. In listening to the General speak I found that he sounded at times like a chapter out of Alvin Toffler’s The Third
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“We Have to Change the Way We Do Business” – Former DOD Official

The problem confronting the Department of Defense is stark, and simple, according to Dr. John Hamre, President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It simply costs too much to do what it does. Dr. John Hamre, former DOD Comptroller and Deputy Secretary of Defense, speaking at the Fairfax County (Virginia) Chamber of Commerce’s
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