Concerns from President Trump, GOP lawmakers could jeopardize Pentagon's JEDI proposal
WASHINGTON — Concerns from President Donald Trump and some members of Congress are jeopardizing a massive, multibillion-dollar contract for a cloud computing program at the Department of Defense that has been poised to be awarded to Amazon or Microsoft.
Critics, including lawmakers with oversight of the department, have expressed concern that the contract proposal process shut some potential companies out and that the program poses a long-term risk to national security because it consolidates information under one company. Johnson would not characterize the president’s concerns but said Trump is knowledgeable about the pending contract. “The president’s aware” of the concerns and asked to see the letters “directly,” he said.
The initial contract process began under Obama but it was officially opened for bids in August 2018. Both Defense Secretaries Jim Mattis and Patrick Shanahan defended the program. Shanahan, before he stepped down, told Congress earlier this year that the bidding process is not anti-competitive. He said this cloud is for “a very small subset of the amount of cloud infrastructure we’re going to have to build out over time.
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