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Microsoft Bidding For Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, October 29th, 2018

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Microsoft Bidding For Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract

Microsoft [MSFT] has submitted a bid for the Pentagon’s massive cloud computing project, the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, the company said on Oct 26.Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, made the announcement in a blog post defending the company’s decision to work with the Pentagon amid growing concern from big tech employees regarding military use of their products, and while industry and Congress continue to scrutinize JEDI’s single award contract structure.“Recently Microsoft bid on an important defense project. It’s…

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