Author: Kim Lyons
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
A judge has issued a temporary injunction against the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, preventing the contract from moving forward until a lawsuit from Amazon is resolved.
Amazon has claimed that it lost out on the $10 billion contract because of Trump’s personal animosity toward Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post, which Bezos owns. Amazon argued that the process of granting the contract had “clear deficiencies, errors and unmistakable bias.”
In a deposition filed yesterday, a Pentagon official said any delay on implementing the new system would be immensely expensive for the government, estimating “a financial harm of between $5 and $7 million dollars every month that performance of...
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A judge has issued a temporary injunction against the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, preventing the contract from moving forward until a lawsuit from Amazon is resolved.
Amazon has claimed that it lost out on the $10 billion contract because of Trump’s personal animosity toward Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post, which Bezos owns. Amazon argued that the process of granting the contract had “clear deficiencies, errors and unmistakable bias.”
In a deposition filed yesterday, a Pentagon official said any delay on implementing the new system would be immensely expensive for the government, estimating “a financial harm of between $5 and $7 million dollars every month that performance of...
Continue reading…
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