Meet America’s newest military giant: Amazon
How the most powerful company in e-commerce positioned itself to become one of the world’s biggest national security contractors.
by Sharon Weinberger
Oct 8, 2019
In July, when President Donald Trump was in the Oval Office with the Dutch prime minister, he took a few moments to answer questions from reporters. His comments, in typical fashion, covered disparate subjects—from job creation to the “squad†of congresswomen he attacks regularly to sanctions against Turkey. Then a reporter asked him about an obscure Pentagon contract called JEDI, and whether he planned to intervene in it.
“Which one is that?†Trump asked. “The Amazon?â€
The reporter was referring to a lucrative and soon-to-be-awarded contract to provide cloud computing services to the Department of Defense. It is worth as much as $10 billion, and Amazon has long been considered the front-runner. But the deal was under intense scrutiny from rivals who said the bid process was biased toward the e-commerce giant.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614487/meet-americas-newest-military-giant-amazon/
