DOD awards $10B JEDI contract to Microsoft, but court battle with AWS continues

The Department of Defense on Friday opened yet another chapter in the ongoing Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI) saga, again selecting Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) to fulfill the potential $10 billion cloud contract. But don’t expect it to be the last word.  After nearly a year of legal dueling with Amazon Web Services, which operates its East Coast campus in Herndon, DOD officials said they had corrected an evaluation flaw that may have favored Microsoft during the first round of…