What’s the rush with the JEDI defense cloud contract?

September 6, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

While the Pentagon’s long-awaited colossal cloud-computing deal has sparked fierce competition between tech giants Amazon and Microsoft, the Defense Department is keeping a keen eye on China’s […]

Microsoft reaffirms support for DOD

December 19, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

Other tech industry executives pushed back against the idea that Silicon Valley workers are less inclined to work with the Defense Department solely because of cultural differences or qualms about the moral implications. “It’s much more an economics issue,” said Rachel Olney, “Dealing with the U.S. government is extremely time consuming.”

Amazon’s HQ2 courting the Pentagon?

December 1, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

This is the strange, slightly surreal world in which Amazon has decided to land. “They definitely moved to Crystal City to be closer to the Pentagon,” says William D. Hartung, security expert at the Center for International Policy and author of “Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex.”