:

Pentagon

Court Denies Oracle’s Challenge To Pentagon’s Potential $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Program

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, July 12th, 2019

SHARE:

Court Denies Oracle’s Challenge To Pentagon’s Potential $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Program

The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force.

A federal judge on Friday ruled in favor of the Pentagon in Oracle’s [ORCL] legal challenge to the potential $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing program, clearing the way for a late August contract award to either Amazon [AMZN] Web Services or Microsoft [MSFT]. The Court of Federal Claims denied Oracle’s argument of conflicts of interest between AWS and Pentagon officials on JEDI and upheld that the program’s stringent criteria did not violate federal procurement laws. "We…

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]