Pentagon's cloud award coming in August

• The Pentagon plans to award the $10B winner-takes-all JEDI cloud contract in late August despite a pending court case from Oracle (NYSE:ORCL).
• In April, the Pentagon confirmed the finalists were Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Google took itself out of the race last fall.
• Oracle has complained the contract unfairly favored Amazon and that two JEDI team members had conflicts of interest due to prior AWS affiliations.
• Source: Pentagon CIO Dana Deasy's comments to reporters.

Comments

[User 46598876]

we have the largest military budget on earth, why are we getting some off the shelf corporate crap instead of the DoD making their own cloud? Shameful!

[Mark_A]

"we have the largest military budget on earth, why are we getting some off the shelf corporate crap instead of the DoD making their own cloud? Shameful!"

You are seriously confused about the US military, Who do you think makes all the planes, ships, tanks, guns, etc for the military? Do you think they make them internally? No, they are made by contractors, which is why the US has the best military in the world.

[MaxPower912]

Mark_A,
with a handle like "Oiltech", did you expect a well thought out post?

[Ron Burgundy’s Hair]

Let’s ensure that those with DoD cloud network access don’t set their password as ‘password’ like podesta

[magenta17]

Not in July, late August now? They keep pushing the announcement month of this contract winner further and further out! A year ago it was last November! Still betting on AMZN. LOL!

[Allen Greathouse]

Cmon $MSFT lets gooooo

[User 18390922]

Amazon involved with national security?? They seem to cater to sellers of cheap Chinese goods

[gensearch2]

They have 17 AWS government contracts including one with the CIA.

[User 18390922]

Hopefully customer service towards the government is better than consumers. I just canceled prime with them.

[Up and Away]

Your mistake for cancelling, if true. Millions of customers and shipments so anything is possible but just call and it is all fixed. Amazing customer service.

[alyno]

they should support the compane of democracy to force TRUMP to find a solution

[Up and Away]

Own both stocks but, prefer the originator who has fine 'tweaked' it over the years.