The Department of War's Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) — awarded to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in December 2022 — has logged more than $3.9 billion in task orders through FY25, per DISA. The Pentagon is now preparing a successor: JWCC Next, with an RFP expected in Q1 CY 2026 (Q2 FY26) and awards planned for early 2027. Coverage from DefenseScoop, DefenseScoop (solicitation plans), and MeriTalk.
Recent task order activity
A notable April 3, 2026 task order — HC105026F0008 — went to AWS for the Olympus analytics infrastructure, an emerging cloud-based AI platform designed to accelerate commercial cloud adoption across DoD. Olympus is representative of the workload pattern JWCC Next will need to support at scale.
What's changing in JWCC Next
Pentagon CIO Kirsten Davies has publicly emphasized "greater visibility into cloud spending" as a JWCC Next priority. Translation: more rigorous metering, cost allocation, and component-level chargeback than JWCC's current structure supports. For hyperscalers, expect tighter reporting requirements; for DoD components, more disciplined consumption forecasting.
What's at stake for small firms
JWCC primes are the four hyperscalers; small firms don't directly compete at prime level. But the services layer — migration, modernization, FedRAMP-compliant tooling, cloud security — generates most of the actual contract dollars beneath the prime vehicle. Positioning paths:
- Join hyperscaler professional-services partner programs (AWS Federal Partner, Microsoft Federal Partner, etc.)
- Position for the upcoming Olympus platform's services ecosystem
- Pursue agency-level cloud workload migration contracts that run on JWCC infrastructure