In the summer of 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis to “remove Amazon” from the $ 10 billion Joint Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, according to a forthcoming book.
Keeping the Line: Inside the Trump with Secretary Mattis, a book on Mattis' time in the Trump administration, says former Defense Department communications director Jay Snodgrass reveals a conflict of opinion between the general and Trump, including the secretary's legal and ethical concerns over the Pentagon contract. Profitable known Gedi.
Matisse disagreed with the president's request at the time because he wanted to follow the contract "duly and legally," according to the book.
The Pentagon announced on Friday that Microsoft had won the contract, a surprise victory over Amazon's leading Web services.
Earlier reports said Trump wanted to "drop" the bidding process because of fears that Jeff Bezos, one of Trump's best-known opponents, could benefit from a 10-year cloud computing contract.
The contract will help the Department of Defense transfer sensitive data to the cloud. The bidding process began in July, and Microsoft eventually beat companies such as IBM and Oracle as well as Amazon in the final stage. Google also took part, but walked out of the deal in late 2018 due to concerns it could not meet the terms of the contract.
"The national defense strategy dictates that we improve the speed and effectiveness with which we develop and deploy modern technical capabilities to our women and men in uniform," Defense Ministry Information Director Dana Desi said in a statement on Friday. “The Digital Modernization Strategy was created to support this need. This transaction is an important step in the implementation of the Digital Modernization Strategy.”
A source close to Business Insider said on Friday that Amazon Cloud Systems was "still evaluating options" after the Pentagon selected Microsoft for a $ 10 billion contract to move the agency's database to the cloud.
"We were surprised by this decision," a spokesman for Amazon Cloud Systems said in a statement. "Amazon is the leader in cloud computing, and it is clear that a detailed evaluation of the comparison of offers will lead to a different decision. We remain deeply committed to continue innovating in the new digital battlefield where resource availability, efficiency, flexibility and scalability can be the difference." Between success and failure. "