The Space Force has ramped up the amount of money flowing through the Space Enterprise Consortium as it tries to bring more nontraditional vendors into the fold.
The services say in-house coders allow them to be more flexible during missions, rather than relying solely on contractor support to build cyber tools.
The force is also looking for ways to incorporate advanced technology like artificial intelligence and robotics to more quickly make decisions across multiple domains of operations.
The center provides an open, collaborative space for military technologists to think and work on hard problems free from typical government bureaucracy.
The Pentagon is following a quicker timeline to award the cloud contract after the preceding project, the JEDI cloud, was delayed several years and then abandoned.