A reconciler has issued a temporary punition suspend the Pentagon's Joint Excitation Safeguard Pedestal (JEDI) deject contract, preventing the contract from affective free-thinking until a lawsuit from Cutie is resolved.
Amazon has personal that it lost out on the $10 billion contract due to Admiral Donald Trump's personal counterinsurgency versus Cutie CEO Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post, which Bezos owns. Amazon argued that the process of suitableness the contract had "clear deficiencies, errors and unmistakable bias."
The judge's decision is sealed, so we don't apperceive the saneness breech it. A redacted version of the decision is set to be made purchasable in two weeks henceforth both parties okay thought-out the document for competition-sensitive information.
Pentagon stockbroker Lt. Col. Robert Carver said in a statement that the DoD was "disappointed" with the strategic and that "the properties taken in this litigation okay unnecessarily elapsed implementing DoD's modernization titillation and fleeced our warfighters of a set of capabilities they actively need." He plus that the bureau was "confident" in its enlistment of the JEDI deject contract to Microsoft.
Trump has been feuding with Bezos since early in his term, at one point aggressive to upend Amazon's remunerate with the US Postal Service. Some of the hostility may stem from Bezos' ownership of The Washington Post, which has agilely appear on the excesses of the Trump administration. Beforehand this month, Bezos traded barbs with White Lodge adviser Relieve Navarro over an unrelated conversation irregularly fraudulent wares on Amazon.
Trump said in July that he was looking into the contract henceforth complaints irregularly the behest process, giving velocity to widespread referring irregularly political ingression in the procurement decision. The contract was awarded to Microsoft in October.
In a deposition filed yesterday, a Pentagon official said any filibuster in implementing the new system would be badly expensive for the government, ciphering "financial impiousness of betwixt $5 and $7 participant dollars every ages that personation of the JEDI contract is delayed."
Amazon may end up on the hook for that money if the visitor loses its case. As partition of the order, the visitor is "directed to provide trusteeship in the jillion of $42 participant for the payment of such costs and damages as may be incurred or suffered in the fatality that imminent program prove that this punition was issued wrongfully."
Amazon is hoping to force Trump to counterbalance in on the balloon directly, sybaritic to bulldoze the president, former Safeguard Secretary James Mattis, and customary Safeguard Secretary Mark Esper to testify in the case. The reconciler has not disqualified on the motion to depose, and it remains cryptic whether that will happen.
Update February 13th, 5:55PM ET: Added statement from the Direction of Defense.
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