Lawmakers Mull Pentagon Contracting ‘Remedy’ After JEDI Blunder

Key House lawmakers vowed to consider changes to the Pentagon’s arcane technology buying process after senior Defense Department officials canceled its flagship cloud computing program.

“All options are on the table,” House Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) told Bloomberg Government on Thursday.

On July 6, the Pentagon announced it would terminate the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract awarded to Microsoft Corp. The move marks an inauspicious end to an embattled program delayed by more than two years.

The cancellation “highlights a serious flaw in the acquisition process,” Rogers said in an ...