GovExec Daily: Oversight and the JEDI Contract

Frank Konkel joins the podcast to explain the Pentagon IG report on the huge defense cloud contract.

April 20, 2020

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By Adam Butler and Ross Gianfortune

The ups and down of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract has been like a roller coaster for years. In October, The Pentagon selected Microsoft in October over Amazon Web Services, which then prompted Amazon to file a legal protest, citing the politics of the decision.

Recently, the Pentagon IG released a report on the JEDI contract and found a slew of ethics violations, but also could neither deny nor verify White House interference in the contract.

Nextgov's Frank Konkel joined GovExec Daily to explain the latest in the JEDI news.

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