{"id":98856,"date":"2019-11-20T18:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/single-10bln-pentagon-contract-must-be-broken-up-between-multiple-recipients"},"modified":"2019-11-20T18:23:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:23:34","slug":"single-10bln-pentagon-contract-must-be-broken-up-between-multiple-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/single-10bln-pentagon-contract-must-be-broken-up-between-multiple-recipients","title":{"rendered":"Single $10bln Pentagon Contract Must Be Broken Up Between Multiple Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/single-10bln-pentagon-contract-must-be-broken-up-between-multiple-recipients.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US Defence Secretary Mark Esper on Friday ruled out allegations of unfair competition in the awarding of a US$10-billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>\u201cI am confident it was conducted freely and fairly, without any type of outside influence,\u201d Esper told a news conference in Seoul, South Korea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Formally called the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure, or JEDI, the contract was awarded to Microsoft on 25 October, and the lucrative deal could span 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defence Secretary Mark Esper on Friday ruled out allegations of unfair competition in the awarding of a US$10-billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft. \u201cI am confident it was conducted freely and fairly, without any type of outside influence,\u201d Esper told a news conference in Seoul, South Korea. Formally called the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98856","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}