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Microsoft temporarily blocked from beginning Pentagon project
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IANS | 14 Feb, 2020
A federal judge in the US has
temporarily blocked Microsoft from beginning work on the $10 billion
Pentagon Cloud computing project following a motion filed by Amazon Web
Services (AWS).
The contents of the court order passed on Thursday was not made public, CNBC reported.
Amazon
had asked the judge to force a temporary stay of work on the Joint
Enterprise Defence Infrastructure, or JEDI, project until the court can
rule on Amazon's protest over Pentagon awarding it to Microsoft.
AWS
had earlier alleged that the contract was awarded to Microsoft last
October after US President Donald Trump exercised his influence over the
country's Defence Department.
The Cloud computing giant said that it lost the lucrative project due to political influence.
The
latest ruling to temporarily halt the work on the project came in
response to a formal motion filed by AWS, asking the court to halt
Microsoft's work on the JEDI cloud contract.
AWS had claimed that
the evaluation process that led to Microsoft winning the contract
included "clear deficiencies, errors and unmistakable bias."
"While
we are disappointed with the additional delay we believe that we will
ultimately be able to move forward with the work to make sure those who
serve our country can access the new technology they urgently require,"
Microsoft was quoted as saying in a statement:
"We have
confidence in the Department of Defence, and we believe the facts will
show they ran a detailed, thorough and fair process in determining the
needs of the warfighter were best met by Microsoft," the statement
added.
The US Department of Defence also expressed its disappointment over the ruling.
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