Jamie Bennet
Executive Mosaic caught up with leaders of Microsoft Federal, Google Public Sector, Oracle and Amazon Web Services for an exclusive video interview series to get their perspectives on how their organizations will support the Department of Defense’s $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program.
All four companies won positions on the JWCC procurement vehicle in December 2022 and received initial task orders in March 2023 as DOD sought to test cloud service offerings from each vendor.
Watch snippets from their in-depth conversations with Executive Mosaic newsroom editor Summer Myatt here.
Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal, said the company will apply previous efforts around cloud, security and data to JWCC.
“We have Azure 5G, we have Azure Space… all those capabilities come together to allow us to operate our cloud anywhere, anytime, securely, to support DOD missions,” the six-time Wash100 awardee remarked.
Amazon Web Services will capitalize on its 143 security standards and certifications to ensure that DOD is procuring compliant cloud offerings, according to Liz Martin, director of the DOD business at AWS.
“Under JWCC, AWS is ready to address the DOD’s requirement for secure, scalable and compliant cloud services, available from the enterprise to the tactical edge,” she noted.
Leigh Palmer, a vice president of Google’s public sector organization, said the company considers the award another step forward to its partnership with DOD.
“I think Google is the innovation choice…We have one of the largest networks in the world that connects our customers with secure and scalable infrastructure. It’s a private network that can deliver high-performance services with a low latency and defense in-depth security,” she elaborated.
Glen Dodson, an Oracle senior vice president, highlighted the differentiators that the company is bringing to the project.
“We’re second-generation cloud architecture. We bring a lot more stringent security, greater performance, at a low predictable price,” he explained. “We’re excited about bringing these capabilities and innovations across the entire security fabric, whether it’s IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, secret or top secret SCI or beyond.”
