{"id":37360,"date":"2021-07-06T17:25:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37360"},"modified":"2021-07-06T17:25:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:25:33","slug":"pentagon-axes-multibillion-dollar-cloud-computing-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37360","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon axes multibillion-dollar cloud-computing contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The Pentagon on Tuesday axed a multibillion-dollar cloud-computing project after it became sidelined by lawsuits and lawmaker scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the Department of Defense (DoD) canceled the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud solicitation and initiated contract termination procedures,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon cited \u201cevolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances,\u201d as the reason for the termination, saying JEDI \u201cno longer meets its needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon for more than a year has contested the $10 billion contract awarded to Microsoft in October 2019.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon on Tuesday axed a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37361,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37360\/revisions\/37361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}