Amazon-Microsoft Face-Off Set for Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud
- Oracle, IBM no longer in the running for $10 billion project
- Selection to move ahead after conflict-of-interest inquiry
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Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are the last competitors standing in the Pentagon’s winner-take-all competition for a $10 billion cloud services contract, the Defense Department said.
The announcement eliminates Oracle Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. from the running. Defense Department spokeswoman Elissa Smith said only Amazon and Microsoft met “the minimum requirements” for the JEDI project.