Oracle wins Pentagon software deal worth up to $7bn
The Navy-negotiated framework consolidates the military’s scattered Oracle licences, on a $3.31bn base that could nearly double if a five-year option is exercised.
Oracle has secured a contract with the US Department of War worth as much as $6.99bn, the largest step yet in the Pentagon’s campaign to stop paying for the same software several times over.
The award, announced and negotiated by the Department of the Navy, folds the military’s scattered Oracle licences into a single framework.
It is the second such deal in three months. In May the Pentagon signed a comparable agreement worth $9.69bn to consolidate Microsoft licences across the services, and the Oracle contract runs on the same logic under the Department of War Enterprise Software Initiative.
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