The Pentagon said a $10 billion cloud computing contract will not be awarded until Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has completed his examination of it. Amazon has been widely seen as the front-runner to win the contract and Microsoft is the other finalist.
The $10 billion, 10-year contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure , has come under recent scrutiny from President Donald Trump, who has expressed concerns over the fairness of what has been a contentious bidding process among a handful of large tech companies.Amazon has been widely seen as the front-runner to win the contract. Microsoft is the other finalist. The contract could be awarded as early as August 23.
We'll take a very strong look at it."On July 22, Trump retweeted a Fox News segment criticizing the JEDI contract as"The Bezos Bailout." It's not clear if the President had already seen the Oracle document by then.Days after Trump's public statements, Esper also mentioned reexamining the contract."I've heard from everybody about JEDI Cloud, that's one of the things I'm going to take a hard look at," Esper told reporters at the Pentagon on July 24.
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