{"id":1023195,"date":"2026-07-24T07:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023195"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:15:35","slug":"pentagon-awards-oracle-nearly-7-billion-deal-in-latest-software-consolidation-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/pentagon-awards-oracle-nearly-7-billion-deal-in-latest-software-consolidation-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon awards Oracle nearly $7 billion deal in latest software consolidation push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Pentagon announced on Thursday a nearly $7 billion, up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle to consolidate the department&#8217;s on-premises software licenses into a single contract, the latest move by the Pentagon&#8217;s technology chief to cut \u200ccosts by \u2060eliminating \u2060fragmented purchasing. <\/p>\n<p>The Enterprise Software Agreement, negotiated by the Department of the Navy, is between the Pentagon and Oracle for its on-premises compute usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Pentagon announced on Thursday a nearly $7 billion, up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle to consolidate the department&#8217;s on-premises software licenses into a single contract, the latest move by the Pentagon&#8217;s technology chief to cut \u200ccosts by \u2060eliminating \u2060fragmented purchasing. The Enterprise Software Agreement, negotiated by the Department of the Navy, is between the Pentagon and Oracle for its on-premises compute usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023205,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023195\/revisions\/1023205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}