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Pentagon Cancels $10 Billion Microsoft JEDI Cloud Contract

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The Pentagon has recently confirmed that they have canceled the JEDI cloud-computing contract with Microsoft which could have been worth $10 billion. The JEDI contract was awarded to Microsoft in October of 2019 which prompted a slew of legal challenges from Amazon who were widely expected to win the contract claiming the decision was tainted by politics. The Pentagon is now planning to pursue a new Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract with Amazon and Microsoft with the potential for other large cloud providers such as Google, IBM, and Oracle to join. The new program appears to be an attempt to placate both companies and will last 5 years with an expected cost in the billions.

Pentagon said:
With the shifting technology environment, it has become clear that the JEDI Cloud contract, which has long been delayed, no longer meets the requirements to fill the DoD's capability gaps.
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Wtf kinda news piece is this?
 
Well here comes telemetry spyware to the DoD.
 
Solaris17 said:
Wtf kinda news piece is this?
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heh, not something I would expect to see on TPU news. The only thing it really tells me is how stupidly butt wild our military is going with all of this computer tech, which won't do much good for long against a near peer adversary. Sure, its nice to have when it works, but when all of your guidance/targeting systems rely on it, you better hope the enemy isn't able to spoil your systems or you're screwed, and if its a cloud based system, well the whole theater of operation is screwed and possibly the rest of the military. :shadedshu:
 
eidairaman1 said:
Well here comes telemetry spyware to the DoD.
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"Would you recommend this build of Windows Military Edition to an ally?"

MentalAcetylide said:
heh, not something I would expect to see on TPU news. The only thing it really tells me is how stupidly butt wild our military is going with all of this computer tech, which won't do much good for long against a near peer adversary. Sure, its nice to have when it works, but when all of your guidance/targeting systems rely on it, you better hope the enemy isn't able to spoil your systems or you're screwed, and if its a cloud based system, well the whole theater of operation is screwed and possibly the rest of the military. :shadedshu:
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I doubt they're gonna be that stupid. The military will probably have countermeasures against that kind of interference, both on the cloud system as a whole and also on each relevant unit of armament (for example, a single jet aircraft)
 
Solaris17 said:
Wtf kinda news piece is this?
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A good one? I find this very interesting.
MentalAcetylide said:
heh, not something I would expect to see on TPU news.
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Hmm. There's an opinion. I disagree with it given the following...
Nordic said:
They reported when Microsoft won the bid before. It isnt like this piece is out of left field.
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Right. Only makes sense. And below is said article;
www.techpowerup.com

Microsoft Bags DOD's $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract Edging Out Amazon

The United States Department of Defense (DOD) Friday awarded a USD $10 billion contract to Microsoft to build the JEDI Cloud (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure), a massive piece of connected IT infrastructure that seeks greater electronic integration within the U.S. Military, and prepare...
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com

It would only make sense to do a follow-up news article to report new developments. The above info qualifies.
 
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More storage for their spying. Yes, even the DoD has been spying like the NSA.
 
DeathtoGnomes said:
FUD. unless you explain why its wrong.
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Same reason it's wrong for every other agency...unless you're defending violation of the constitution and support a police state.
 
TheGuruStud said:
Same reason it's wrong for every other agency...unless you're defending violation of the constitution and support a police state.
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Please do explain, otherwise it just seems like you are spouting fud. Just an FYI, I understand the United States Military charters very well. Your ignorance does not make what they do, nor how they do it, unlawful.
 
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lexluthermiester said:
Please do explain, otherwise it just seems like you are spouting fud. Just an FYI, I understand the United States Military charters very well. Your ignorance does not make what they do, nor how they do it, unlawful.
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Ok, then you won't mind me coming to read your mail and mic your house. Idiot.
 
Keep the personal insults to yourself or the mods will be asked to help you out. And the US Military is not reading emails or putting a mic in peoples homes. That is the domain of DHS, the FBI and in certain cases the NSA. Get to know the authority charters and jurisdiction statues Mr Gurustud.
 
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Translaton: projected validated by Trump, denied by Biden
 
Makes me wonder if JEDI is a reboot of the Star Wars program.
 
Well crap, this means that poor-assed ole M$ won't have enuff money to fix all the f/ups in W11, 12 & 13 hehehehe :)

Jedi ? StarWars ? wtf... hello Pentagon, this is 1977 calling & we want ALL our outdated, antiquated space/missle/spy defense programs back, like, yesterday.....
 
N3utro said:
Translaton: projected validated by Trump, denied by Biden
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Bingo. They probably also want to be contractor independent of sorts, in the sense of redundancy. If one cloud provider takes a beating, there must be another. MS and Amazon are key players to have in that sense.

Another big thing I think is sheer force of numbers. Part of security is being too big to topple, too much computing power is much harder to DDOS, etc. And another argument is keeping all your friends close lest they might become enemies. If you're in bed with DoD, you won't be doing something for, say, China.

And numerous other arguments I can't think of :)

DeathtoGnomes said:
FUD. unless you explain why its wrong.
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Easy

www.law.cornell.edu

electronic-surveillance-and-the-fourth-amendment

www.law.cornell.edu www.law.cornell.edu

mtsu.edu

Surveillance and Wiretapping

Interception of private communications via electronic surveillance raises First Amendment concerns for the chilling effect it can have on free speech.
mtsu.edu mtsu.edu

The list is long. And that's only based on what was officially acknowledged. But public knowledge has a much longer list of pretty rancid spy cases, on our own citizens, and the US is no exception to that rule. In fact, the Netherlands over here is number one (or at least, was until China figured out computers and cameras) in wire taps per inhabitant. We're really good at it, apparently and similar discussions and issues arise.

As always though, intelligence agencies are blessing curse and necessity. Much like other conflict a lot of it defies common sense until you really figure out what's underneath.
 
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This is all so they can store more info from FB that people give freely, that is sold to the Gov. under the guise of HLS.
 
jaggerwild said:
This is all so they can store more info from FB that people give freely, that is sold to the Gov. under the guise of HLS.
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Pft, no need to. They can just ask the companies for info. Or look it up themselves, what with people leaving things open to public access.
 
other large cloud providers such as Google, IBM, and Oracle
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Best joke I've heard in a while.
 
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