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A complaint of political inference by former President Donald Trump in the Defense Department’s award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft in 2019 may now proceed.
By Adam Mazmanian
Apr 29, 2021
A complaint of political inference by former President Donald Trump in the Defense Department’s award of a massive cloud computing contract to Microsoft in 2019 may now get its day in court.
The lawsuit filed by Amazon Web Services, alleging that Trump actively steered the 10-year, $10 billion award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract to Microsoft, can go forward under a ruling issued by U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Patricia E. Campbell-Smith, who denied the government’s motion to dismiss the claim.
If the U.S. continues with the case, it will have to continue to argue that Trump did not act improperly during the lengthy and contested solicitation process.
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