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Pentagon

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

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, July 12th, 2019

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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…

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