diff --git a/mango-cli/pom.xml b/mango-cli/pom.xml
index 4d29786a6..a49a95a6d 100644
--- a/mango-cli/pom.xml
+++ b/mango-cli/pom.xml
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-sql_${scala.version.prefix}</artifactId>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
@@ -131,7 +130,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-core_${scala.version.prefix}</artifactId>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.bdgenomics.adam</groupId>
diff --git a/mango-core/pom.xml b/mango-core/pom.xml
index a2ed13d3b..4fc8ebaa7 100644
--- a/mango-core/pom.xml
+++ b/mango-core/pom.xml
@@ -98,12 +98,10 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-sql_${scala.version.prefix}</artifactId>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-core_${scala.version.prefix}</artifactId>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.bdgenomics.adam</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f8f1730b9..90440d85f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     <scala.version>2.11.12</scala.version>
     <scala.version.prefix>2.11</scala.version.prefix>
     <scalatra.version>2.4.1</scalatra.version>
-    <spark.version>2.1.0</spark.version>
+    <spark.version>2.2.1</spark.version>
     <spark.version.prefix>-spark2_</spark.version.prefix>
     <snappy.version>1.0.5</snappy.version>
     <scoverage.plugin.version>1.1.1</scoverage.plugin.version>
@@ -438,6 +438,12 @@
             Spark 2.2.0 release notes.
         -->
         <version>1.8.1</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
+            <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
diff --git a/scripts/jenkins-test b/scripts/jenkins-test
index 8b563e672..d300c0cce 100755
--- a/scripts/jenkins-test
+++ b/scripts/jenkins-test
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ fi
 
 set -e
 
-# are we testing for spark 2.1.0? if so, we need to rewrite our poms first
-if [ ${SPARK_VERSION} == 2.1.0 ];
+# are we testing for spark 2.2.1? if so, we need to rewrite our poms first
+if [ ${SPARK_VERSION} == 2.2.1 ];
 then
 
     # shouldn't be able to move to spark 2 twice
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ find . -name "*.bak" -exec rm -f {} \;
 
 # run integration tests
 # prebuilt spark distributions are scala 2.11 for spark 2.x
-if [[ ${SPARK_VERSION} == 2.1.0 && ${SCALAVER} == 2.11 ]];
+if [[ ${SPARK_VERSION} == 2.2.1 && ${SCALAVER} == 2.11 ]];
 then
 
     # make a temp directory
@@ -158,7 +158,10 @@ then
     SPARK=spark-${SPARK_VERSION}
 
     # download prepackaged spark assembly
-    wget -q http://d3kbcqa49mib13.cloudfront.net/${SPARK}-bin-${HADOOP}.tgz
+    curl \
+        -L "https://www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi?action=download&filename=spark/${SPARK}/${SPARK}-bin-${HADOOP}.tgz" \
+        -o ${SPARK}-bin-${HADOOP}.tgz
+
     tar xzvf ${SPARK}-bin-${HADOOP}.tgz
     export SPARK_HOME=${MANGO_TMP_DIR}/${SPARK}-bin-${HADOOP}