The Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract to Re-Issue It as a Multi-Cloud Proposal
By Todd R. Weiss
July 6, 2021
Almost six months into President Joe Biden’s first term as president, the administration and the Pentagon have canceled the controversial $10 billion JEDI cloud modernization contract that was previously awarded to Microsoft Corp. in late 2019 under then-President Donald Trump.
Since the contract was awarded, its status has been up in the air. U.S. military leaders wanted to get JEDI going to bring desperately needed technology improvements and services to the agencies of the U.S. armed services, but Amazon immediately challenged the contract award as illegal, taking the matter to the courts. Amazon had charged that the Trump administration pushed to award the deal to Microsoft due in part to his personal distaste for Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos.