Pentagon seeks 'to reconsider' cloud contract to MicrosoftAmazon argues it was shut out of the Pentagon deal because of President Donald Trump's vendetta against the company and its chief executive Jeff Bezos (R). In a filing late Thursday in a federal court, government attorneys asked for the matter to be "remanded," or sent back, to the Pentagon "for 120 days to reconsider certain aspects of the challenged agency decision." The Pentagon attorneys said the motion came in response to the judge stalling the awarding of the JEDI contract on the grounds Amazon Web Services (AWS) would "likely be able to show" that the department erred in evaluating its proposal. Subscribe Now »It is seeking testimony from the president and other top officials on the reasons for awarding the $10 billion, 10-year US military cloud computing contract to Microsoft. "DoD wishes to reconsider its award decision in response to the other technical challenges presented by AWS," the government attorneys said in the filing.

Source: Standard Digital March 14, 2020 15:00 UTC