DoD cancels $10B Jedi contract

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Here&#x27;s the actual DoD press release: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defense.gov&#x2F;Newsroom&#x2F;Releases&#x2F;Release&#x2F;Article&#x2F;2682992&#x2F;future-of-the-joint-enterprise-defense-infrastructure-cloud-contract&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defense.gov&#x2F;Newsroom&#x2F;Releases&#x2F;Release&#x2F;Article&#x2F;26...</a><p>Notably, they are still focusing on AWS and MS offerings, but also doing further market research.<p>I&#x27;m curious about the specifics as to why GCP isn&#x27;t on the shortlist.

As someone who used to work at Microsoft, this amuses the heck out of me. So many people in my division (C+E) spent so long working on this ridiculous warmongering contract, and in the end it was all for nothing. Well, good.

I&#x27;m repeating myself here but us0r you may be able to fix the capitalization of s&#x2F;Jedi&#x2F;JEDI&#x2F; if you do it within the next hour.

This isn&#x27;t the contract you&#x27;re looking for

So much for annual bonuses this year

I nearly spit out my drink reading this. As a DoD contractor, this is reasonable, but exceedingly surprising news.

This seems like a win for Oracle.<p>What I imagine the outcome will be is dozens of “smaller” billion $ government cloud contracts totally more than the original $10B.

First time I encounter this word:<p>conversancy: personal knowledge or information about someone or something

They are going to rebid this - maybe with multiple awards possible.

Amazon wins.

Defense shouldn&#x27;t trust others with hardware or software. We have seen major security foul ups in cloud computing.