{"id":94377,"date":"2019-08-02T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/pentagon-pauses-10-billion-cloud-contract-over-amazon-concerns"},"modified":"2019-08-02T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:42:44","slug":"pentagon-pauses-10-billion-cloud-contract-over-amazon-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/pentagon-pauses-10-billion-cloud-contract-over-amazon-concerns","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon pauses $10 billion cloud contract over Amazon concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-pauses-10-billion-cloud-contract-over-amazon-concerns2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is hitting pause on awarding its $10 billion cloud computing contract until the Defense Department examines whether the process was rigged in favor of Amazon, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sec-of-defense-to-look-into-10-billion-jedi-contract-2019-8\"><em>Business Insider<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeeping his promise to Members of Congress and the American public, Secretary Esper is looking at the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program,\u201d a Pentagon spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. \u201cNo decision will be made on the program until he has completed his examination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The contract was supposed to be awarded sometime this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is hitting pause on awarding its $10 billion cloud computing contract until the Defense Department examines whether the process was rigged in favor of Amazon, according to Business Insider. \u201cKeeping his promise to Members of Congress and the American public, Secretary Esper is looking at the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program,\u201d a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94377","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}