{"id":67525,"date":"2019-08-05T11:19:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=67525"},"modified":"2019-08-05T11:19:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:19:59","slug":"pentagon-to-review-10-billion-contract-that-amazon-seeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pentagon-to-review-10-billion-contract-that-amazon-seeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to review $10 billion contract that Amazon seeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the face of accusations of favouring Amazon over other companies, the Pentagon is set to review a $10 billion cloud computing contract, the media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement of the review came just weeks before the winner of the contract was expected to be declared, according to a report in National Public Radio, which added that US Defence Decretary Mark Esper is re-examining the project as President Donald Trump also cited the accusations of favouritism by critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo decision will be made on the programme until he has completed his examination,\u201d Department of Defense spokeswoman Elissa Smith was quoted as saying on August 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon and Microsoft are the finalists for the project is called JEDI, for Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure.Earlier in a letter to Trump, a group of lawmakers called for delaying the contract. The letter, dated July 23, reportedly called for an investigation into potential conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of accusations of favouring Amazon over other companies, the Pentagon is set to review a $10 billion cloud computing contract, the media reported. The announcement of the review came just weeks before the winner of the contract was expected to be declared, according to a report in National Public Radio, which added [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67527,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67525\/revisions\/67527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}