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The Department of Defense on Friday awarded a $10 billion technology contract to Microsoft, in what was a scrutinized contest after President Trump said he might intervene in the hard-fought commercial battle.
The 10-year contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, known by the cinematic acronym JEDI, had set off a showdown among Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Google. Intended to transform and modernize the military’s cloud computing systems, the contract is considered more important than its size because of its centrality to new forms of war. Much of the military operates on 1980s and 1990s computer systems, and the Pentagon has spent billions of dollars trying to make them talk to one another.
The decision was a surprise because Amazon had been considered a front-runner to win the contract. But that was before Mr. Trump began his criticisms of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and, for the past several years, the owner of The Washington Post — a news organization the president refers to as the “Amazon Washington Post.”
A speechwriter for former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who over time became an enthusiast of moving Pentagon operations to the cloud, alleged in a book scheduled for publication next week that Mr. Trump had wanted to “screw” Amazon and give the contract to another company. In public, Mr. Trump said there were other “great companies” he wanted to make sure had a chance at the contract….
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Amazon does $2 Billion annually in United State Intelligence community computer and server businesses…
Using one vendor for server’s probably isn’t a smart idea security wise….
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