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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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by corey on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:07PM (5 children)
Hmm, everyone is quick to bag this one out, and I don't disagree, noting Microsoft's history and the issues some have mentioned about Azure. But, I'd like to know more about the implementation. What data will go up there? Will it all be unclass? I.e. will anything class be on an airgapped network maintained by Defense as it is now?
If not, will they encrypt it with AES-256 or NSA Suite A [wikipedia.org] before upload?
These things can really put a dent in most people's reactions and arguments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:25PM
I can assure you anything that a Soylentil has thought of, the contractors and the government have thought of as well.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @03:56AM
It will be classified and it will not be on the internet. People are making too much of the word "cloud" - its just a classified data center managed by MS. There are already others, Amazon has an air-gapped "secret region" AWS. [amazon.com] These classified data centers are connected via government operated classified intranets, such as SIPRnet. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday October 27 2019, @11:05AM (2 children)
A system is only as secure as the people administering it are trustworthy.
Microsoft is setting up Azure HQ in the zionist entity of Israel, what I would just about say is the least safe place in the world, full of people who betray americans for breakfast, lunch and dinner, like it is a national sport. On the fault line of the thing that is causing the most anger in the entire world.
The idea that americans can trust israelis to do all the cryptographic work is so shockingly stupid, Im ashamed to be even associated by name with these people.
It is against every american value that there is, independence, self-reliance, locality, federalism, soveirngty(fuck spelling this), heck its pretty unpatriotic in every sense of the word, giving contracts to foreign companies, selling american companies IP to non-american companies.
Hard to find even a single other person on the internet who shares these views, almost like israelis own american media channels and don't want us to think about this.
So when anon poster says, that nothing here on SN is news to the US military, I have to really kindof wonder.
It's one thing to have a friend or ally, another thing to let them hold your balls for safe keeping. Which is what this is.
So why doesnt the us military just come out and say 'we have been conquered by israel and we cannot do anything without them, our soldiers are essentially israeli cannon fodder from here on out, all hail the yinnom plan?'
Does the us military even know about the Yinnom plan, that Israel wants all of the territory in Iraq and Syria, eventually? That they have no plans to halt their expansion? That they plan on letting the US military do all of the dying?
Really, american military command are you sure you don't have a brain slug? I'd double check. We give them money to buy things from us and say they are doing us a favor, try that at a pawnshop in the Bronx ffs.
I am trying to think of an advantage to having Israel as an ally, and I can't think of one.
I am so sick of hearing and talking about israel, we americans really helped them out and Epstein and Trump is the thanks we get.
Am I allowed to be mad or is that anti-semitic? Can I point out that the prime claims of anti-semites are of long term infiltration and undermining of countries by Jewish people, and that this is exactly what israel is doing to the United States? Or is this an illegal fact?
I have grown up with all of the cultures in America, which I love, so long as they are not mugging me, but at the moment one of the cultures wants to take over, and that is not American and I am pissed.
What may happen is a real coup, and in the chaos, smoke, all of the mossad operatives just living freely in the United States will go around and make sure all of the people who are capable of resisting them find a way to die. I strongly suspect this is what is happening in Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia right now.
A country cannot survive treachery from within, so all you U.S. military folk who think you are so high and mighty, please do your fucking jobs and defend the country, and western civilization from this utter bullshit, or quit and do something you are qualified for like idk bending over and getting fucked.
thesesystemsarefailing.net
decultification.org (but especially get the israelis out or they will force us all to believe god gave them land and nukes and then eventually everything else too)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:56PM
All the things i heard so-called "Neo-Nazis" say about the Jews that i thought were really paranoid, deflection and projection ended up being true. The US is run by Israel via the international Jews Henry Ford tried to warn about, along with the Anglo whores that conspire with them. They were allowed to bring down the twin towers, they are allowed to steal the wealth of American citizens via their international criminal banking cartel, they have been using American soldiers as cannon fodder since World War One, They are full of shit about World War Two, They have been kicked out of over a hundred countries for their treachery and it's time the US is added to the list, They control the school system and the media so good luck with that. This is why the internet is such a threat. It's the Aryan race's only hope at a future. The only way to stop the slow motion White Genocide and the conversion of all western countries into full slave states of the Greater Israel world capital.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @10:57PM
Well, Sieg Heil to you too, motherfucker!
Who the fuck is this guy?!