Microsoft Vendors Win a $7.6 Billion Deal for Pentagon Software
- General Dynamics to provide cloud-based productivity tools
- Pentagon reviewing separate JEDI cloud contract amid outcry
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Vendors led by General Dynamics Corp. were awarded a contract for as much as $7.6 billion to provide Microsoft office software for the Pentagon, the Defense Department and General Services Administration said.
While the Microsoft Office 365 productivity software is cloud-based, the contract isn’t related to the hotly disputed “JEDI” cloud project that the Pentagon has yet to award. Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are the two remaining competitors for that prize, which may reach $10 billion.