WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Tuesday it canceled a disputed cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion. “With the shifting technology environment, it has become clear that the JEDI Cloud contract, which has long been delayed, no longer meets the requirements to fill the DoD’s capability gaps,” the Pentagon said in a statement. The Pentagon’s …
In October 2019, the U.S. Defense Department awarded a controversial contract to Microsoft. In January, the Pentagon said in a statement that “regardless of the JEDI Cloud litigation outcome, the Department continues to have an urgent, unmet requirement for enterprise-wide, commercial cloud service.” Amazon claws back Four months later, the ecommerce giant’s bid to claw back the JEDI deal came …
