Tuesday, July 6th 2021
Pentagon Cancels $10 Billion Microsoft JEDI Cloud Contract
The Pentagon has recently confirmed that they have canceled the JEDI cloud-computing contract with Microsoft which could have been worth $10 billion. The JEDI contract was awarded to Microsoft in October of 2019 which prompted a slew of legal challenges from Amazon who were widely expected to win the contract claiming the decision was tainted by politics. The Pentagon is now planning to pursue a new Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract with Amazon and Microsoft with the potential for other large cloud providers such as Google, IBM, and Oracle to join. The new program appears to be an attempt to placate both companies and will last 5 years with an expected cost in the billions.
Source:
Associated Press
PentagonWith the shifting technology environment, it has become clear that the JEDI Cloud contract, which has long been delayed, no longer meets the requirements to fill the DoD's capability gaps.
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It would only make sense to do a follow-up news article to report new developments. The above info qualifies.
Jedi ? StarWars ? wtf... hello Pentagon, this is 1977 calling & we want ALL our outdated, antiquated space/missle/spy defense programs back, like, yesterday.....
Another big thing I think is sheer force of numbers. Part of security is being too big to topple, too much computing power is much harder to DDOS, etc. And another argument is keeping all your friends close lest they might become enemies. If you're in bed with DoD, you won't be doing something for, say, China.
And numerous other arguments I can't think of :) Easy
www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-4/electronic-surveillance-and-the-fourth-amendment
mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1153/surveillance-and-wiretapping
The list is long. And that's only based on what was officially acknowledged. But public knowledge has a much longer list of pretty rancid spy cases, on our own citizens, and the US is no exception to that rule. In fact, the Netherlands over here is number one (or at least, was until China figured out computers and cameras) in wire taps per inhabitant. We're really good at it, apparently and similar discussions and issues arise.
As always though, intelligence agencies are blessing curse and necessity. Much like other conflict a lot of it defies common sense until you really figure out what's underneath.
www.ibm.com/cloud/case-studies/
Judging by this: www.statista.com/chart/18819/worldwide-market-share-of-leading-cloud-infrastructure-service-providers/
even calling Google a large cloud provider could be a bit of a stretch.
Google personnel won't help US military or law enforcement lol