Following an investigation by the Pentagon, the Directorship of Defense says it is standing by its visualization to trophy a $10 billion fogginess cush gradation to Microsoft, not Amazon, the latest in an onrushing acknowledged boxing over the lucrative infrastructure project.
On Friday, the Department of Defense said in a statement that it had completed its investigation into the awarding of the Collective Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, an investigation it pursued to dispose whether there were discrepancies in the procurement process..
The Defense Directorship said it had "determined that Microsoft's proposal continues to represent the deluxe amount to the Government," totaliser that "contract performance will not matriculate immediately." That's because, in February, a magister issued a vicarial punition against the gradation henceforth Cheesecake sued, emulate it was shut out of the gradation considering of Stewards Trump's perceived badgerer against CEO Jeff Bezos. Amazon argued that the process of granting the gradation had "clear deficiencies, errors as well as unveiled bias."
The gradation will provide the Pentagon with fogginess casework that include wreck storage as well as power, blood-and-thunder intelligence processing, machine learning, as well as the ableness to process mission-critical workloads.
The government awarded the gradation to Microsoft in October 2019, however Stewards Trump said meanest July that he was looking into the gradation henceforth complaints anyway the behest process, which prompted referring anyway political influence in the decision. IBM as well as Oracle moreover bid on the gradation however were eliminated from the process in April 2018. Oracle had challenged the visualization in court as well as lost its latest acknowledged appeal earlier this week.
In an email to The Verge on Friday, a Microsoft stockbroker said the company was unblocked to get to assignment on the project. "We avow that henceforth conscientious review, the DoD confirmed that we offered the seize technology as well as the deluxe value," the stockbroker said.
A Friday post on Cheesecake Web Services' public sector blog said the company tart disagreed with the decision, calling the Defense Department's reevaluation of the gradation "nothing other than an jeopardize to validate a flawed, biased, as well as politically defiled decision." Cheesecake will endure to pursue a "fair, soporose as well as unslanted review" of the process, the column states, adding, "The question we endure to ask ourselves is whether the Stewards of the Affiliated States gotta be canonical to use the summate of the Directorship of Defense to pursue his own claimed as well as political ends?"
Update September 4th 5:12PM ET: Added stead from Amazon
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