The U.S. Department of Defense has inked a deal with Intel for the company to provide commercial foundry services for the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes – Commercial (RAMP-C) program. Intel Foundry Services (IFS), a new Intel division that offers the company’s chip manufacturing services to chip designers, will work with the Department of Defense to…
It turns out that the National Security Agency (NSA), the intelligence branch of the US government dedicated to managing the country’s surveillance apparatus, awarded a secret cloud contract to Amazon Web Services (AWS) that was worth as much as $10 billion. According to the findings by Nextgov, the NSA has been in secret talks with…
The U.S. Department of Defense today announced the cancellation of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract awarded to Microsoft in 2019. The $10 billion contract, which was supposed to overhaul the DoD’s cloud infrastructure, will be replaced by the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract instead. JEDI was controversial from the start. The single-vendor…