Microsoft awarded Pentagon's controversial JEDI contract

Microsoft has beaten Amazon to win the controversial $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract from the US Department of Defense. A year ago, Microsoft employees were trying to discourage the company from bidding for the contract over concerns that the technology is develops could "be used for waging war". The DoD confirmation that the "contract will address critical and urgent unmet warfighter requirements for modern cloud infrastructure" will do nothing to calm these fears. See also: Microsoft defends its JEDI cloud project bid Microsoft employees use open letter to urge company not to get involved in JEDI… [Continue Reading]