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posted by chromas on Thursday November 15 2018, @08:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the dissen-gonna-be-bery-messy!-me-no-watchin! dept.

Oracle's JEDI mind-meld doesn't work on Uncle Sam's auditors; These are not the govt droids you are looking for:

Oracle's bid to halt the Pentagon's JEDI $10bn winner-takes-all cloud IT contract has been turned down.

Uncle Sam's Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a statement on Wednesday explaining that it would not be taking up Oracle's appeal of the US Department of Defense's stipulation that the entire JEDI technology platform be limited to a single supplier.

Considered one of the most lucrative and sought-after government contracts in recent memory, JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) will award the winning contractor a $10bn decade-long contract to overhaul the DoD's entire IT infrastructure.

Oracle filed complaints, but on Wednesday, the GAO concluded:

"GAO's decision concludes that the Defense Department's decision to pursue a single-award approach to obtain these cloud services is consistent with applicable statutes (and regulations) because the agency reasonably determined that a single-award approach is in the government's best interests for various reasons, including national security concerns, as the statute allows," the office said.

"GAO's decision also concludes that the Defense Department provided reasonable support for all of the solicitation provisions that Oracle contended exceeded the agency's needs. Finally, GAO's decision concludes that the allegations regarding conflicts of interest do not provide a basis for sustaining Oracle's protest."

[...] The decision does not mean the JEDI process is in the clear. IBM has filed a similar protest objecting to the contract's bidding and procurement process. The GAO says that it will be handling those filings separately, with a decision on the IBM appeal due to be delivered by January 18


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Sorry, Amazon, Microsoft wins JEDI contract again upon re-evaluation:

After a monthslong[sic] investigation by the Pentagon, the Department of Defense said Friday that it's sticking with Microsoft for its $10 billion cloud computing contract. And Amazon is not happy.

As a quick refresher: Microsoft was originally awarded the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract in October 2019 after facing off against other tech giants like IBM, Oracle, and Amazon in a fierce, yearslong[sic] bidding process. The contract would provide cloud computing services to the U.S. Army and is valued at as much as $10 billion for services rendered over a decade.

[...] The agency went on to say that this decision does not mean work will begin immediately since February's temporary injunction still stands, but it is "eager to begin" working with Microsoft to modernize the Pentagon's IT infrastructure.

In response, Amazon's cloud-computing arm, Amazon Web Services, tore into the DoD and Trump in a scathing post to its public sector blog, calling the government's investigation "nothing more than an attempt to validate a flawed, biased, and politically corrupted decision."

[...] You can read the statement in full here. TLDR: Amazon is royally pissed and the government can pry this contract from its cold, dead hands.

[...] In short, it appears the JEDI saga still isn't over so grab some popcorn and settle in, folks. This one's shaping up to be a doozy.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by driverless on Thursday November 15 2018, @09:56AM (1 child)

    by driverless (4770) on Thursday November 15 2018, @09:56AM (#762097)

    a $10bn decade-long contract to overhaul the DoD's entire IT infrastructure

    should read:

    a $10bn $23bn $47bn $69bn decade-long two decade-long three decade-long forty-year contract to overhaul partially upgrade the DoD's entire IT infrastructure

    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday November 15 2018, @10:58AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday November 15 2018, @10:58AM (#762109) Journal

      I think you mean "near bottemless pit filled with money" to "modify the entire DOD IT infrastructure to ensure vendor support is required for continuous patchingsupport until the end of time"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @10:41AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @10:41AM (#762105)

    The "single supplier" stipulation would have been just fine with Oracle if they would have won the contract. Now, I'm not sure how much "Oracle" you can get for only $10bn, but I bet it would require driverless' post above to recalculate its joke.

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday November 15 2018, @11:27AM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday November 15 2018, @11:27AM (#762115) Homepage Journal

      Some of them are twenty-four hours. Likely that particular one was.

      He put thirty-five grand worth of private dances on the Oracle company credit card. While Oracle refused to pay, my understanding is that Oracle could be legally compelled to. If Oracle had a problem with that guy's recreational preferences, they would have to extract the money from _him_.

      You know how they always say that "There's no sex in the Champagne Room"? It happens that I used to go to that particular club quite a lot.

      It has private rooms with doors that _close_.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday November 15 2018, @11:19AM (1 child)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday November 15 2018, @11:19AM (#762113) Homepage Journal

    Consider the FAA's entire air traffic control infrastructure. Surely that was a much smaller task to overhaul?

    No.

    A friend worked on it over a summer when he and I were UCSC students. He told me their new code had been in development by then for twenty years. I would be quite unsurprised to learn that they never finished it.

    The specific reason that the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility was formed was to drive home the fact that there was no way to reliably test the Strategic Defense Initiative's code - other than to actually use it in a real war.

    "Don't buy version 1.0 of anything," one of my support customers advised me.

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    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @12:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @12:03PM (#762122)

      Quote from Silicon valley "If you aren't mortally embarrassed by the quality of your initial release, you've released too late".

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday November 15 2018, @11:31AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday November 15 2018, @11:31AM (#762117) Homepage Journal

    Just two words:

    "Cover Oregon".

    Enough said.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday November 15 2018, @12:00PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday November 15 2018, @12:00PM (#762121) Journal

    Microsoft is in the running?

    O.M.G.

    I'd rather have Moss and Roy do the whole damn thing: at least it would be funny to watch! Instead, it would just turn into a tear-jerker.

    Again, WTF? If MS wins, you all just better move to Canada.

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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday November 15 2018, @03:06PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Thursday November 15 2018, @03:06PM (#762184) Journal

    Cyberdyne Corporation, naturally.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @01:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @01:25PM (#763076)

    I'll just leave this here: www.orafraud.org (courtesy of archive.org) [archive.org]

    Oracle's infested with Zionists. Why the fuck would you give government funds to a company dedicated to lying under oath and cheating their employees, and each other, as well as their customers?

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