# Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure
**Entity class:** Program
**Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]]
## Definition
Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) was the Department of Defense's attempted single-vendor enterprise cloud program.
## Chronological Proximity
Its 2018–2021 procurement followed the intelligence community's cloud adoption and preceded the multivendor [[wiki/Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability|JWCC]].
## Relational Proximity
Amazon Web Services and [[wiki/Microsoft Azure|Microsoft Azure]] competed for the award; its cancellation reversed the single-vendor premise in favor of JWCC.
## Collection Routes
[[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]]
## Sources / Provenance
- [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research]].