Pentagon to review Amazon employee's influence over $10 billion government contract
By AARON GREGG AND CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT | The Washington Post | Published: January 24, 2019
The Pentagon is reviewing whether Amazon Web Service created a conflict of interest when it hired a former Defense Department employee who once claimed he was "leading the effort" to help the agency move its computing systems to the cloud, court records show.
Deap Ubhi had worked at Amazon Web Services before joining the Defense Department and now is back at the company after less than two years - a career path that is now a point of contention in the competition for a $10 billion contract to build and manage much of the cloud computing services for the Pentagon.
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