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Pentagon Meeting With Microsoft This Week To Discuss Initial JEDI Cloud Work

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, December 10th, 2019

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Pentagon Meeting With Microsoft This Week To Discuss Initial JEDI Cloud Work

Pentagon officials will meet with Microsoft [MSFT] in Washington, D.C., this week for a series of meetings to begin work on the potential $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud program, Pentagon officials said on Tuesday. The discussions with Microsoft to begin preparing for JEDI cloud implementation arrive as Amazon [AMZN], which lost out on the contract, has officially filed a lawsuit protesting the award and alleging outside political influence in the contract decision. “The Department of Defense is…

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