Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, July 7th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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So I'm glad we've gone through all of that Michiganse that we've gone through these last few years, because at least the lawyers got paid. The Pentagon has announced

that it is officially cancelling the $10 billion Jedi Cloud contract

that was awarded to Microsoft but faced legal challenges from Amazon.

The plan seems to be to scrap the whole process and just start again,

soliciting bids for a new contract that will explicitly be looking for multiple vendors, which, you know, why not do that in the first place?

Not only would that avoid the acrimony of what we've seen these last few years, wouldn't the Pentagon being reliant

on more than just one vendor

be a good idea in the first place anyway?

Quoting CMBC.

The Jedi or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Deal has become one of the most tangled

contracts for the Department of Defense. In a press release Tuesday the Pentagon said that

due to evolving requirements increased cloud

converseancy and industry advances the Jedi Cloud

Contract no longer meets its needs end quote. The fight over a cloud computing project does not appear to be completely over yet,

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