The U.S. military appears ready "to bet it all" on the cloud.
And that apparently means moving even our country's most guarded nuclear secrets off premises.
The Pentagon is about to bid out what it calls the JEDI cloud—a contract that could be worth a billion dollars a year to the winning vendor.
And it needs to be a vendor that can keep secrets about everything, including American nukes.
NextGov reports:
"The Defense Department’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud will be designed to host the government’s most sensitive classified data, including critical nuclear weapon design information and other nuclear secrets.
The Pentagon is expected to bid out the controversial JEDI cloud contract this week, and new contracting documents indicate the winning company must be able to obtain the full range of top secret government security clearances, including Department of Energy 'Q' and 'L' clearances necessary to view restricted nuclear data."