Trump Expressed Concern About Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract
- Pentagon poised to give JEDI contract to Amazon or Microsoft
- President frustrated he was unaware of Republican concerns
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President Donald Trump recently demanded more information about how the Pentagon crafted a massive cloud-computing contract it’s poised to award to Amazon.com Inc. or Microsoft Corp., in order to decide whether he should intervene.
The Defense Department is set to give the contract, worth as much as $10 billion over ten years, to one of the two companies next month. Amazon, whose cloud-computing technology leads the market, is seen as the favorite.