Remarkableriots Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/microsoft-wins-pentagon-s-10-billion-jedi-contract-thwarting-amazon/ar-AAJn3KJ?ocid=AMZN Quote Microsoft was awarded the Defense Department’s 10-year JEDI cloud computing project over Amazon, whose founder, Jeff Bezos, has been a target of President Trump’s criticism. The 10-year contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, known as JEDI, had set off a showdown among Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Google for the right to transform the military’s cloud computing systems. The acrimonious process involved intense lobbying efforts and legal challenges among the rivals. The contract has an outsize importance because it is central to the Pentagon’s efforts to modernize its technology. Much of the military operates on 1980s and 1990s computer systems, and the Defense Department has spent billions of dollars trying to make them talk to one another. The decision was a surprise because Amazon had been considered the front-runner, in part because it had built cloud services for the Central Intelligence Agency. But that was before Mr. Trump became publicly hostile to Mr. Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post. The president often refers to the newspaper as the “Amazon Washington Post” and has accused it of spreading “fake news.” In public, Mr. Trump said there were other “great companies” that should have a chance at the contract. But a speechwriter for former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says in a book scheduled for publication next week that Mr. Trump had wanted to foil Amazon and give the contract to another company. The issue quickly became radioactive at the Pentagon. The new defense secretary, Mark T. Esper, at first said he wanted to take several months to review the issue and then, a few days ago, recused himself from the bidding. He said he could not participate because his son worked for IBM, one of the competitors for the contract. As recently as this month, the betting was that Microsoft would, at most, get only part of the contract and that the Pentagon would use multiple suppliers for its cloud services, as do many private companies. Microsoft was considered in the lead for other government cloud programs, including an intelligence contract; only recently has Microsoft opened enough classified server facilities to be able to handle data on the scale of the Pentagon contract. “The acquisition process was conducted in accordance with applicable laws and regulations,” the Defense Department said in a statement on Friday. “All offerors were treated fairly and evaluated consistently with the solicitation’s stated evaluation criteria.” Microsoft did not immediately have a comment. Amazon, which calls its cloud platform Amazon Web Services, or AWS, said in a statement that it was surprised by the decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Subpoena the records and persons regarding the procurement process. I'd wager there was undue influence on the decision by the WH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 I don't really care about the final decision itself, but the way it was made does indeed make me uncomfortable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Bad no bid contracts? Never heard of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 I’m sure Microsoft will do a great job. Just look at their amazing cloud enhancing they’ve done for my Xbox One games like Crackdown 3 they promised. So I’m sure this $10B deal will be no problem for them 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSoxFan9 Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 suck it bezos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Isn't this Government picking winners and losers? Something that Republicans are supposed to be opposed to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 13 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said: Isn't this Government picking winners and losers? Something that Republicans are supposed to be opposed to? False, because Bezos was already a loser according to the GOP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Does Trump not like Bezos just because he's actually richer and did it on his own? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 There's not a single billionaire who "did it on their own" so just never say that again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 24 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: There's not a single billionaire who "did it on their own" so just never say that again Well ok, I mean, compared to Trump THE BAR IS LOW OK!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Like some have said, I don’t think he’s a Billionaire (until after he took office maybe) Maybe he got thrown out of the club like Mr. Burns did by Bezos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Quote Some years ago, Mr Trump invited me to lunch for a one-to-one meeting at his apartment in Manhattan. We had not met before and I accepted. Even before the starters arrived he began telling me about how he had asked a number of people for help after his latest bankruptcy and how five of them were unwilling to help. He told me he was going to spend the rest of his life destroying these five people. He didn’t speak about anything else and I found it very bizarre. I told him I didn’t think it was the best way of spending his life. I said it was going to eat him up, and do more damage to him than them. There must be more constructive ways to spend the rest of your life. (Hopefully my advice didn’t lead to him running for President!) I was baffled why he had invited me to lunch solely to tell me this. For a moment, I even wondered if he was going to ask me for financial help. If he had, I would have become the sixth person on his list! https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/meeting-donald-trump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chadatog Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 8 hours ago, Jason said: Trump is literally like the Lethal Weapon II bad guy always holding up his badge and saying "diplomatic immunity" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ort Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Doesn't the right wing hate Bill Gates too? All my right-winged shit-brained dumbass ignorant friends and relatives on Facebook are always saying bafflingly idiotic stuff about Bill Gates. Is hating on Bill Gates a Qanon thing or something? I don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 1 hour ago, ort said: Doesn't the right wing hate Bill Gates too? All my right-winged shit-brained dumbass ignorant friends and relatives on Facebook are always saying bafflingly idiotic stuff about Bill Gates. Is hating on Bill Gates a Qanon thing or something? I don't get it. Vaccine thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Vaccine thing. Don't they blame COVID on him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricofoley Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Yeah, I believe there's one version of the conspiracy where Bill Gates developed the virus in a lab so he could have a pretext for giving everyone the microchip tracker vaccine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 1 hour ago, Jason said: Don't they blame COVID on him? 56 minutes ago, Ricofoley said: Yeah, I believe there's one version of the conspiracy where Bill Gates developed the virus in a lab so he could have a pretext for giving everyone the microchip tracker vaccine Here ya go. That's it. -sent from Facebook for Android Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 If anyone was wondering how this was going... Pentagon kills Microsoft’s $10B JEDI cloud contract, says tech is now outdated ARSTECHNICA.COM Amazon's legal stall tactics seem to have paid off. Looks like the Pentagon is going to rescope the entire project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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