Correction: This story previously misstated the total value of the contracts. The U.S. Department of Defense awarded cloud contracts with a combined potential value of up to $9 billion to… Read More
The U.S. Department of Defense is soliciting bids from multiple companies to upgrade its technology capabilities with the benefit of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analysis and other hallmarks of… Read More
Previously undisclosed emails appear to indicate that as Amazon pursued the now-canceled $10 billion JEDI cloud contract, it enlisted such an array of Defense Department influencers that a pair of… Read More
JEDI is canceled. The Pentagon said today it will nix the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, a massive project to migrate the Pentagon’s computing infrastructure and data… Read More
The Pentagon is considering “pulling the plug” on the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The Journal cited recent complaints from lawmakers about the… Read More
The news: A federal judge on the Court of Federal Claims declined to dismiss allegations that former President Trump interfered with the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, a massive… Read More
In a newly unsealed court filing, Amazon blames an “extraordinary environment of corruption, interference, and retribution” by President Donald Trump for improperly influencing the U.S. Department of Defense to reaffirm… Read More
[Update, Tuesday Aug. 11: U.S. Federal Claims Court Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith granted the one-month extension in an order today.] The federal government wants more time to sort through a legal… Read More
The Information revealed Monday how Microsoft had a “secret ally” — Oracle — to help land the coveted Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, a $10 billion Pentagon project that was… Read More
Amazon is once again challenging the Department of Defense’s decision to award a $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft. Amazon filed a protest of the award directly with the DoD… Read More
The protracted saga over a $10 billion Defense Department contract that pits Microsoft and Amazon against each other will be delayed even further. A federal judge on Friday gave the… Read More
Microsoft took aim at Amazon in a blog post Wednesday, accusing its rival of seeking an unfair advantage as the two companies lock horns over the Pentagon’s JEDI contract. The… Read More
A new report by the Defense Department’s inspector general found no evidence that President Donald Trump improperly influenced the award of a coveted military cloud contract to Microsoft over rival… Read More
For months Amazon has been pleading with a federal court to order the Department of Defense to review its decision to award a lucrative, high-profile cloud contract to rival Microsoft.… Read More
Could Amazon and Microsoft end up sharing the Pentagon’s coveted $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract? That’s the likely scenario to play out in light of recent legal developments, according… Read More
New court filings reveal that the Department of Defense wants to “reconsider certain aspects” of its decision to award Microsoft with the coveted $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.… Read More
Amazon claims that Microsoft’s winning bid for the Pentagon’s coveted $10 billion cloud computing contract should have been disqualified after the Redmond company proposed using a type of data storage… Read More
A federal judge has paused work on a hotly contested cloud contract that the Defense Department awarded to Microsoft in November. The decision issued Thursday is a victory for Amazon,… Read More
The relentless ambition that brought customers same-day delivery and a new category of home speakers apparently extends to Amazon’s legal strategy. The Seattle tech giant prides itself in being a… Read More
Amazon is asking a federal judge for permission to depose President Donald Trump and Defense Department officials to prove bias and personal animus led the Pentagon to award a lucrative… Read More
Amazon’s crusade to overturn the Department of Defense’s award of a lucrative cloud contract to rival Microsoft inched forward this week with a new court filing. What’s new: Amazon filed a… Read More
Amazon’s legal quest to overturn the decision to award the coveted JEDI cloud contract to rival Microsoft could be a long, drawn-out process. While the court battle plays out, Amazon… Read More
Microsoft’s push to recruit people to work on the JEDI project to build cloud infrastructure for the U.S. Department of Defense is in full swing, according to a new report,… Read More
A newly unsealed court document reveals more details about Amazon’s strategy to get the Defense Department to overturn its award of a major cloud contract to rival Microsoft. The U.S.… Read More
Big tech should continue to play a key role in national defense, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said, painting the work as integral to protecting democracy. Tech giants have experienced internal… Read More
Amazon is asking a federal judge to block the Defense Department from enlisting Microsoft for a contentious and lucrative cloud project, according to court filings unsealed this week in the… Read More
Amazon filed its formal protest over Microsoft’s victory in a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract, citing video evidence that the bidding process was improperly influenced by political pressure from… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is formally protesting a decision by the U.S. Department of Defense to award its $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract to Microsoft, suggesting… Read More
Amazon is protesting the Defense Department’s surprise decision to award a lucrative cloud contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, to Microsoft last month. An Amazon spokesperson said Thursday… Read More
Microsoft’s surprise victory last week in a protracted competition to build the Pentagon’s war cloud has some critics asking whether politics played any role in the outcome. Amazon was long… Read More