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Pentagon annullerer kæmpe Microsoft JEDI-kontrakt

Microsoft blev tidligere tildelt en $ 10 milliarder dollar kontrakt for cloud computing fra Pentagon, denne kontrakt blev udfordret af Amazon i retten tilbage i 2019. Kontrakten er nu blevet annulleret, og en ny kontrakt vil blive udviklet, der vil omfatte flere virksomheder.

Disse virksomheder inkluderer Amazon og Microsoft. Microsoft har frigivet en pressemeddelelse, der indikerer, at de støtter Pentagons beslutning, du kan se nedenfor.

Concurrent with the cancellation of the JEDI Request for Proposals (RFP), the DoD announced its intent for new cloud efforts. The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) will be a multi-cloud/multi-vendor Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The Department intends to seek proposals from a limited number of sources, namely the Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), as available market research indicates that these two vendors are the only Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) capable of meeting the Department’s requirements. However, as noted in its Pre-Solicitation Notice, the Department will immediately engage with industry and continue its market research to determine whether any other U.S.-based hyperscale CSPs can also meet the DoD’s requirements. If so, those Department will also negotiate with those companies.

Pentagon vælger tilsyneladende også, at kigge i retning af andre amerikanske virksomheder såvel som Microsoft og Amazon for at se, om de også er i stand til at opfylde deres cloud computing-krav.

 

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Pentagon, Techmeme, Microsoft