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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday October 26 2019, @07:45AM   Printer-friendly
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Pentagon beams down $10bn JEDI contract to Microsoft: Windows giant beats off Bezos

Microsoft has been awarded the $10bn decade-long US Department of Defense JEDI IT supply contract that will see the nation's military switch to the cloud.

The Redmond giant's Azure platform will play host to the US armed forces in an attempt to overhaul and streamline the Pentagon's IT infrastructure under a single umbrella – or single point of failure, to put it another way. Microsoft share price rose on the news in after-hours trading.

"The National Defense Strategy dictates that we must improve the speed and effectiveness with which we develop and deploy modernized technical capabilities to our women and men in uniform," Dept of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy said in announcing the award.

"The DoD Digital Modernization Strategy was created to support this imperative. This award is an important step in execution of the Digital Modernization Strategy."

The decision will no doubt come as a disappointment to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the presumed front-runner for the single-vendor deal since it was first announced.

Due to the massive requirements of the winner-takes-all contract, the security clearances required and the mandate that it go to a single provider, AWS and Microsoft were seen as the only two qualified candidates for the deal.

In awarding the contract to Microsoft, the Pentagon will avoid further allegations that it collaborated with AWS to stack the deck in its favor, a complaint which has dogged the process from its outset.


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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday October 26 2019, @08:36AM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday October 26 2019, @08:36AM (#912013) Journal

    Signs Trump might be a Manchurian candidate after all.
    1) Microsoft in the army.
    3) Cloud in the army.
    4) bots omitting list items due to hidden directives.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @10:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @10:14AM (#912024)

    Trump is *not* a Manchurian Candidate. What he is is a stupid fascist candidate that, in the short term, plays into the hands of entities like Russia.

    1. fascist America no longer tries to organize alliances -- by definition, this means America plays an ever less relevant role in the world
    2. fascist America isolates itself from world economy -- by definition, this weakens American dollar influence in the world and mobilizes other nation to get rid of USD as reserve currency
    3. fascist America destroys its own fake image as the "City on the Hill" -- the goodwill disappears

    In the long term, all of this is extremely dis-stabilizing to the world as little tough guys pop up all over, replicating their own little fascist ideologies that are doomed to fail in one way or another. The only hope is that we don't end up in some nuclear wars that destroys us all ... and for what? So some fuck up can stand on an insignificant part of this small planet and temporarily proclaim themselves "I'm the most important ant!" before being washed away by the river of time.

    The world badly needs unity in face of all the problems we are having. Problems like plastic pollution, global warming, even CFC, SO2 and NOx monitoring to make sure we don't kill ourselves by destroying this planet. But instead, we have morons cutting the nose off to spite the face in their snowflake notion of rebellion. They have learned nothing in the history class.

    PS. To be slightly on topic for TFA, Microsoft today is NOT the Microsoft of the 1990s. The only thing that remains is the name and a few *legacy* products that no longer provide significant growth anyway.