The US Defense Department will reconsider its awarding of a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft over Amazon, following claims president Trump had potentially interfered with the selection process, New York Times reports. Dubbed the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastruture (JEDI), the contract sees its awardee build and maintain the US government’s “war cloud,” handling the processing and storing large amounts of classified war-related data. It also includes an artificial intelligence system to assist with war planning. [Read: Amazon confirms a Seattle-based employee has contracted coronavirus] Amazon’s lawyers argue the White House had swayed Pentagon officials into awarding JEDI to Microsoft…
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Friday, 13 March 2020
