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Apr, 2025 : Oracle Secures $222M U.S. Army Cloud Services Task Order
📅 - Oracle has announced a new task order to provide cloud compute and storage services to the U.S. Armys Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA), as part of the Department of Defenses (DoD) Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract. A notification posted on Sam.gov in March 2025 states that the task order is for $222.53 million.
The agreement represents a fixed-price commitment and will support defense workloads across Impact Levels (IL) 2, 4, 5, and 6 through Oracles U.S. Defense Cloud platform.
Administered by the Armys Office of the CIO, ECMA operates as a field-level agency with a central role in advancing the Army Digital Transformation Strategy (ADTS). The new task order is [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
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