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Amazon, Microsoft To Compete For Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Cloud, Contract Award Likely Mid-July

Amazon, Microsoft To Compete For Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Cloud, Contract Award Likely Mid-July
Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

The Department of Defense has determined Amazon [AMZN] Web Services and Microsoft [MSFT] are the two vendors capable of meeting the minimum requirements for the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing program, with a contract award now expected in mid-July, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Wednesday. The program update arrives following a series of protests and delays, including a DoD investigation that found no conflicts of interest related to JEDI acquisition but did point to potential ethical violations that…

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