
Two weeks after a federal court cleared the Pentagon against a legal challenge to its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud program, the full ruling unsealed on Friday has detailed the project’s “flawed” contract strategy and potential ethics violations. A federal claims court judge acknowledged instances of alleged conflicts of interest with Amazon Web Services [AMZN] and sided with the plaintiff, technology firm Oracle [ORCL], over its objection to the Pentagon’s justification for a single-award approach, but ultimately deemed the issues…