Pentagon says it will stick with Microsoft for $10 billion JEDI cloud contract - Flaze News

 

KEY POINTS

• The JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, deal has become one of the most hotly contested contracts for the Department of Defense.
• The contract is intended to modernize the Pentagon’s colossal IT infrastructure and could be valued up to $10 billion for services rendered over as many as 10 years.

He said Friday it will stay with Microsoft for a major cloud deal that has been controversial in court for months.

JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, has become one of the most competitive contracts for the Dell Defense Department. The agreement aims to eliminate the infrastructure of modernisation and has been valued as much as $10,000,000 for their services over 10 years.

The contract's performance will not be immediately initiated as the initial order issued by the Federal Court of Claims 13, 2020, is eager to begin supplying its potential to our men and women in uniform. "

The results represent a loss for Amazon, which had tried to challenge the award after Microsoft was awarded a cloud computing deal on Oct. Representatives for Amazon and Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In November, Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing unit, filed a lawsuit in federal claims in u.S. court to protest the JEDI decision. The company argued that President Donald Trump's bias against Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezaus, influenced Microsoft to give the deal. During the legal battle, he invited Amazon and Microsoft to review and re-assemble their proposals for the deal.

Today's decision can lead to more legal proceedings.

The profitable deal, originally scheduled to be awarded in September 2018, Trump said last year that he was seriously considering taking a look at the JEDI deal.

"I've never had anything where more and more people are complaining," he told reporters at the White House in July 2019.

The focus came in the wake of Trump's possible impact on the deal when a book charting then Defense Secretary James Mattes said the president told the "Scro-Amazon" out of the deal.

The Executive, which owns the Washington Post, has become a constant source of frustration for Trump. The President regularly publishes the kratakis for coverage of his administration. As his claim, when Amazon has also started, does not pay its fair share as it claims and ripping off the U.S. post office.

Earlier this year, the Inspector General of the S.A. released a report that did not show the award being influenced by the White House.

However, the inspector general stated in its 313-page April report that there was limited cooperation by white house officials throughout its review and as a result, it could not complete its assessment of allegations of moral misconduct.