Court to Explore Whether Trump Officials Interfered in JEDI Contract
The Defense Department previously said lengthy litigation could threaten the contract’s future.
A federal judge Wednesday denied motions to dismiss allegations made by Amazon Web Services in November that the Trump administration politically interfered in the Defense Department’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract award.
The ruling, issued under seal, likely extends the legal challenge made by AWS after DOD awarded Microsoft its JEDI contract in September.
Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith’s decision opens the door for the court to further explore AWS’ allegations that political interference played a role in the Pentagon’s decision to select Microsoft allegations Pentagon officials haverepeatedly denied. However, the decision could threaten the JEDI contract itself. In a January memo, the Defense Department hinted it could abandon the JEDI cloud effort if the judge did not d
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Defense, Intelligence Agencies Made Major Moves in Cloud in 2020 deepadesigns/Shutterstock.com
email December 24, 2020
After bid protests and litigation, some of the largest cloud contracts the government has attempted can get underway.
Despite a pandemic that forced hundreds of thousands of personnel to remote offices and an assortment of legal actions involving some of the major cloud procurements, the Pentagon and intelligence community made major moves in cloud computing adoption in 2020.
However, 2020 ends much the same way it began for the Defense Department’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure: under litigation. With JEDI on hold for more than a year, Defense agencies have looked elsewhere for enterprise cloud computing capabilities, turning instead to existing vehicles like the Air Force’s Cloud One contract. Here’s a look at what happened with some of the Defense Department’s and intelligence community’s cloud efforts.