Microsoft has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office against the NSA, challenging its award of a cloud computing contract.
, known as JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure. The JEDI deal, embroiled in a lengthy legal battle between tech giants Amazon and Microsoft, has become one of the most tangled contracts for the Pentagon.
The NSA contract, also worth up to $10 billion, is codenamed “WildandStormy” and intended to modernize the agency’s classified data storage, Nextgov reported. In a statement to CNBC, a spokesman for the NSA said that the agency “recently awarded a contract for cloud computing services,” declining to elaborate further on the matter.
“The unsuccessful offeror has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office. The Agency will respond to the protest in accordance with appropriate federal regulations,” the spokesman added. A Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC in a statement: “Based on the decision we are filing an administrative protest via the Government Accountability Office. We are exercising our legal rights and will do so carefully and responsibly.”The lucrative JEDI cloud contract was intended to modernize the Pentagon’s IT operations for services rendered over as many as 10 years.
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