Pentagon Awards Microsoft $9.69 Billion Software Deal to Consolidate 5 Years of Licenses
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Updated · Reuters · May 27
Pentagon Awards Microsoft $9.69 Billion Software Deal to Consolidate 5 Years of Licenses
5 articles · Updated · Reuters · May 27
$9.69 billion over five years will fold Microsoft 365, cloud and on-premises software purchases across the military, intelligence community and Coast Guard into one Pentagon contract vehicle.
The Core Enterprise Technology Agreement is meant to cut costs and end years of fragmented license buying, letting the department use its full purchasing scale instead of separate service-level renewals.
Pentagon officials said the award does not add new spending because multiple software contracts were already coming up for renewal and will now be combined under existing budgets.
The consolidation gives Microsoft a guaranteed enterprise-wide position across U.S. defense agencies while the Pentagon tries to squeeze out duplicative software spending.
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