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Amazon Wins Court Injunction on Controversial JEDI Contract

posted by janrinok on Sunday February 16 2020, @07:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-new-hope dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:

Amazon wins court injunction on controversial JEDI contract:

[...] Amazon late last year filed suit against the Trump administration over the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud-computing contract. Amazon last month asked the court to grant a temporary injunction halting any JEDI work while the case is pending, and today Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith agreed. Although the existence of the injunction is public, documents relating to the matter are presently sealed.

The JEDI contract is a $10 billion agreement to build a cloud computing and storage platform for use by the entire Department of Defense. Several firms were in the running for the deal, including Oracle and IBM. in April, the DoD dropped the list of finalist candidates to two: Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure. AWS was widely expected to seal the deal, and so industry-watchers were surprised when in October Microsoft nabbed the contract instead.

Amazon filed suit a month later. The company argued that it didn't just lose the contract for ordinary reasons of cost or capability but was instead sabotaged for political reasons. Microsoft's win flowed from "improper pressure from President Donald J. Trump, who launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer the JEDI Contract away from AWS to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos," the lawsuit argued. (Bezos is the founder of Amazon and CEO as well as owner of The Washington Post.)

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 16 2020, @08:41PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 16 2020, @08:41PM (#958882) Journal

    Here we have two of the biggest tech companies in the world, competing to join the MIC community. To my way of thinking, nobody should win. Scrap JEDI, create standards, then award lesser contracts to many different vendors, who must meet those standards. The military can set up it's own networking among the various departments, branches, agencies, and whatnot.

    The larger the MIC grows, the more screwed the world is.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @08:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @08:57PM (#958886)

    Hmm, de-fund the MIC along with Planned Parenthood? This seems relevant to your interests: Arkansas Libertarians nominate candidates for 2020 elections [lp.org].

    (Disclaimer: probably not possible in the capitalist era, inherent contradictions, The Accumulation of Capital [marxists.org], ymmv.)

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday February 16 2020, @10:22PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 16 2020, @10:22PM (#958914) Journal

    The military can set up it's own networking among the various departments, branches, agencies, and whatnot.

    No, it can't. Anything the govt does is wrong, by definition. The private entities and them alone are the master of efficiency.

    For example, look on what that DARPA thingy has become: a cesspit of vulnerabilities and a vector for the Russians to attack the honest Americans.

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