DoD: Pentagon okay in giving $10B ‘war cloud’ contract to Microsoft over Amazon

The Pentagon’s watchdog has no real beef with the awarding of a $10 billion ‘war cloud’ contract to Microsoft over Amazon, despite admitting it can’t completely prove that Trump‘s White House didn’t interfere. In a massive 313-page report released Wednesday, the Defense Department‘s (DoD) inspector general deemed the contract’s acquisition process both reasonable and consistent with the law. [Read: The world has less billionaires in 2020, but Jeff Bezos is still the richest] Amazon sued the DoD last year, alleging that president Donald Trump‘s personal issues with CEO Jeff Bezos influenced the Pentagon to give the lucrative JEDI contract to Microsoft, a major…

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