Pentagon to “reconsider” parts of controversial $10 billion JEDI contract

Enlarge / The Pentagon in its natural habitat-Arlington, Virginia-in 2018. (credit: Michael Brochstein | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images)

Amazon has notched up another minor victory in its lawsuit against the Department of Defense over a massive contract the federal government awarded to Microsoft late last year.

The DoD said Thursday that it will re-evaluate part of its decision to award the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract (JEDI, because of course) to Microsoft, CNN Business was first to report. In a court filing, the agency specified that it "wishes to reconsider its award decision in response to the other technical challenges presented by" Amazon Web Services.

JEDI, an agreement to build a cloud computing and storage platform for use by the entire DoD, is valued around $10 billion over the next several years. Multiple enterprise computing companies were on the initial shortlist of potential vendors, including Oracle and IBM. By April, the DoD dropped the list of finalist candidates to two: Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Industry-watchers by and large thought Amazon would win out and were surprised when Microsoft emerged the victor in October.

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