“The Department has determined that, due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI Cloud contract no longer meets its needs,” a Defense Department spokesperson said in an unsigned release distributed to reporters.
The department wants to create a massive cloud-based central operating system for the U.S. military, harnessing the technological capabilities of a major private-sector cloud provider to create new battlefield applications…..
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But the Pentagon’s steadfast insistence that the contract should go to just one company, rather than spread the work among multiple providers, made it a lightning rod from the start. Oracle and IBM lodged protests before the bids were due, arguing that such an approach ran counter to the business world’s best practices….
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And Biden & Co and Congress are gonna let these fools go ahead with this?????
This is something that is aimed to fail……
Uh, Oh for Amazon…..
G.O.P. Lawmakers Question Amazon’s Connections on Pentagon Contract
As the Defense Department prepares to solicit bids for cloud-computing work that could yield billions of dollars for Amazon, members of Congress are raising new questions about the company’s efforts to win a $10 billion contract during the Trump administration.
Previously unreleased emails show that Pentagon officials in 2017 and 2018 lavished praise on several of the tech executives whose companies expressed interest in the original contract, especially Amazon, while concerns about the company’s access appear to have been glossed over, according to the emails, other documents and interviews….
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