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Pentagon Puts $10 Billion Contract on Hold After Trump Suggests It Favored
Amazon

Reuters

   The Pentagon has decided to put on hold its decision to award a $10
   billion cloud computing contract after President Donald Trump said his
   administration was examining Amazon.com Inc's bid following complaints
   from other tech companies.

   The contract, called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud,
   or JEDI, is part of a broad modernization of the Pentagon's information
   technology systems.

   Oracle Corp lobbied aggressively and expressed concerns about the award
   process for the contract, including asking about the role of a former
   Amazon employee who worked on the project at the Defense Department but
   then recused himself, then later left the Defense Department and
   returned to Amazon Web Services.

   Oracle and IBM Corp have since been eliminated from the competition,
   leaving Amazon and Microsoft Corp as finalists.

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