After Trump cites Amazon concerns, Pentagon reexamines $10 billion JEDI cloud contract process

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

The White House has instructed newly installed Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper to reexamine the awarding of the military’s massive cloud-computing contract because of concerns that the deal would go to Amazon, officials close to the decision-making process said.

The 11th-hour Oval Office intervention comes just weeks before the winning bid was expected to be announced and has now left a major military priority up in the air, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door process freely. As recently as Sunday, the Defense Department defended its plans to move ahead with a single company for what is known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, a $10 billion contract that would be one of the government’s most expensive information technology procurements ever.

No decision has yet been made, the officials said. But some officials said the move to award the contract to more than one company is a possibility.

The president’s directive represents a departure from what is usually a scripted bureaucratic process. Trump on several occasions has spoken out against Amazon and its chief executive, Jeff Bezos. And he has attacked the Bezos-owned Washington Post for its coverage of him by conflating it with Amazon’s interests. The president has called the news organization the “Amazon Washington Post,” while accusing it of publishing “fake news” and being a “lobbyist newspaper” for the company.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/01/after-trump-cites-amazon-concerns-pentagon-re-examines-billion-jedi-cloud-contract-process/

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This is fucked up.

[SCVDem]

1. And the contract goes to......

Oleg Derepaska !

This must be stopped!

[TheBlackAdder]

2. I wouldn't trust Amazon with sensitive data. External clouds are inherently insecure.

[PSPS]

3. No kidding. Running something in "the cloud" just means running it on someone else's computer

None of this should be facing the publicly-accessible internet anyway.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. And once it leaves your network, and is mirrored in another country... it's copied by the NSA.

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Cloud services request indemnity insurance, to cover clients.

It's not if your data gets stolen but when and to what degree.


Most industries pay a hefty fee per individual record being exposed, but it is capped at upwards of 100,000 records. They do this to prevent one incident from destroying a company. So, the insurance often times just covers up to that limit.

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[Astraea]

5. Aw... Trump got his feelings hurt

So I guess Amazon won't be getting the contract.

Pathetic.

[iluvtennis]

6. Trump just doesn't want to see Bezos/his company make $$. Trump is an evil pig.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. "walk"?

[iluvtennis]

10. want...I was typing on my phone in the car while talking to someone else...sorry. nt

[DeminPennswoods]

8. Wrong reason, right decision

DoD should have and control it's own data center. DoD has plenty of money and useable space to house its own servers and to hire its own civilians and military to run it. It's not in DoD's best interest to have critical information and data housed at a single commerical server farm.

[machoneman]

9. I agree. But it is funny how the Republiscums are always for outsourcing until something they....

or Trumpy don't like occurs and then they back away.

Odd too how so, so many outsourcing ideas are sold on the basis of cost efficiency and outright huge savings yet in the next year's budget, the very same department requests a lot more funding to pay for......guess what?

It never ends with the 'RScums does it?