Microsoft Corp. has won the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favorite Amazon.com Inc . The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) contract is part of a broader modernization of the Pentagon’s information technology systems meant to make the Defense Department more digitally agile. Oracle Corp had expressed concerns about the award process for the contract, including the role of a former Amazon employee who worked on the project at the Defense Department but then recused himself, then later left the Defense Department and returned to Amazon …read more
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