Pentagon buys cloud services of Microsoft for $7.6 billion

At the end of August, 2019 the Pentagon and Management of services of general purpose of the USA ( U.S. General Services Administration, GSA) announced purchase of the software and Microsoft services for the amount of $7.6 billion.

The 10-year contract is signed with CSRA companies (enters into the General Dynamics Information Technology group), Dell Marketing and Minburn Technology Group. These contractors will construct the solution based on products of Microsoft for customers transfers the Business Insider edition.

The Pentagon buys cloud services of Microsoft for $7.6 billion

The project which there began the U.S. Department of Defense received the name Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS). It is designed to replace the outdated office software with more modern cloud computing. The contract concerns implementation of the services connected with e-mail, joint work and correspondence of employees, storage of files and video conference. It is supposed that solutions will be used by 3 million servicemen.

DEOS optimizes our use of cloud e-mail and tools for joint work, having at the same time improved cyber security and information exchange on the basis of the standardized requirements and market offers — the Chief information officer Dana Deasy said.

According to analysts to whom Business Insider refers, the Microsoft company practically guaranteed itself a victory in the tender of DEOS as only the packet of Microsoft Office 365 conformed to strict requirements of the customer. What Microsoft partners will participate in project implementation remained the only question.

Microsoft fights for one more cloud contract of the Pentagon — Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI). Its basic differs from DEOS is that acquired the right will perform JEDI to do it independently, without attracting integrators.^[1]

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