Still, it will be Microsoft celebrating winning the JEDI deal for a second time. The company’s Azure cloud services were upheld as the best choice for the project, according to the DoD: “The Department has completed its comprehensive re-evaluation of the JEDI Cloud proposals and determined that Microsoft’s proposal continues to represent the best value to the Government,” the DoD points out in a statement. “The JEDI Cloud contract is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that will make a full range of cloud computing services available to the DoD.” If you’re unfamiliar with JEDI, it is the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project. Microsoft’s cloud services will underpin an overhaul of the DoD’s computing infrastructure. Microsoft was originally awarded the contract a year ago.
Not Backing Down
“There is a recurring pattern to the way President Trump behaves when he’s called out for doing something egregious: first he denies doing it, then he looks for ways to push it off to the side, to distract attention from it and delay efforts to investigate it (so people get bored and forget about it). And then he ends up doubling down on the egregious act anyway.” “While contract performance will not begin immediately due to the Preliminary Injunction Order issued by the Court of Federal Claims on February 13, 2020, DoD is eager to begin delivering this capability to our men and women in uniform.”
