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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: 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.