{"id":112881,"date":"2020-09-11T06:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/pentagon-says-microsoft-still-deserves-10-billion-jedi-cloud-contract"},"modified":"2020-09-11T06:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:43:04","slug":"pentagon-says-microsoft-still-deserves-10-billion-jedi-cloud-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/pentagon-says-microsoft-still-deserves-10-billion-jedi-cloud-contract","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon says Microsoft still deserves $10 billion JEDI cloud contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-says-microsoft-still-deserves-10-billion-jedi-cloud-contract2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After an internal investigation, the US Department of Defense (DoD) announced that is standing by its decision to award the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract to Microsoft and not Amazon. The probe was triggered after Amazon complained that the integrity of the bidding process was cast into doubt because of statements by President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon affirmed its initial decision awarding the contract to Microsoft, but acknowledged that the legal battle isn\u2019t over. In a press release, it said it \u201cdetermined that Microsoft\u2019s proposal continues to represent the best value to the government\u201d but added that the contract \u201cwill not begin immediately.\u201d That\u2019s because of a temporary injunction issued over an Amazon lawsuit arguing that the contract had \u201cclear deficiencies, errors and unmistakable bias.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an internal investigation, the US Department of Defense (DoD) announced that is standing by its decision to award the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract to Microsoft and not Amazon. The probe was triggered after Amazon complained that the integrity of the bidding process was cast into doubt because of statements by President Trump. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1490,1496,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-government","category-law","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}