Pentagon probe unable to rule out White House influence on JEDI contract

Sigma Advanced Systems

15/04/2020 15:28

WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - The Pentagon's inspector
general on Wednesday said it could not determine whether the
White House influenced the award of a $10 billion cloud
computing contract to Microsoft  MSFT.N  over Amazon  AMZN.N 
after several administration officials said their conversations
were privileged "presidential communications".  
    The Pentagon has been attempting to modernize its technology
including moving to a cloud computing system but the move has
been hampered by a lengthy selection process as well as protests
from other competitors. 

 (Reporting by Chris Sanders
Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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