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Nick Wakeman

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Nick Wakeman
Nick Wakeman is the editor-in-chief of Washington Technology and joined the publication in 1996 as a staff writer. He's a graduate of Bridgewater College and earned a masters degree from American University. When he isn't writing about government contractors, he's thinking of cooking large pieces of meat over fire and dreaming of ways to embarrass his two sons. Follow him on Twitter: @nick_wakeman
Defense Systems

DISA plans single award for $11.7B IT contract

The Defense Information Services Agency expects to release the solicitation for a potential 10-year, $11.7 billion IT support contract by the end of September with an award expected in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2021.

  • Nick Wakeman
Defense Systems

JEDI may be Microsoft's key to global government market

JEDI is a huge contract on its own, but Microsoft also apparently sees its win of the Defense Department's cloud infrastructure contract as a launching pad for similar projects with international governments.

  • Nick Wakeman
Defense Systems

JEDI injunction decision hinges on cloud storage definition

Conflicting interpretations of “highly accessible storage” are at the center of a federal judge’s ruling granting Amazon Web Services a preliminary injunction that freezes task orders on the Defense Department’s massive Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative cloud contract.

  • Nick Wakeman and Adam Mazmanian
Defense Systems

Pentagon firms 5G experimentation plans

The Pentagon is looking at facilities and use cases for large-scale experimentation and prototyping of 5G applications and spectrum sharing.

  • Nick Wakeman
Defense Systems

Will the JEDI controversy end with the award?

We may be seeing the end of the introductory phase the Pentagon's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure procurement.

  • Nick Wakeman