Stefan Mileschin

The Force is not with it, claims Amazon boss's official organ

A federal judge said in court documents that Amazon's protest lawsuit over rival Microsoft being awarded a highly lucrative defence project was "likely to succeed on the merits" of one of its main arguments.

The Washington Post, which is coincidentally owned by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, has been looking at some of the paperwork connected to the case for clues about how US Court of Federal Claims Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith might rule on the case.

For those who came in late, Microsoft was awarded the Pentagon's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing contract after the Trump administration and other lawmakers intervened on the tech giant's behalf.

Campbell-Smith last month halted production on the JEDI cloud system, saying in her decision that the Pentagon erred in how it evaluated prices for competing proposals from the two tech companies.

In a statement to the Post, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Robert Carver said: "We remain focused on getting this critical capability into the hands of our warfighters as quickly and efficiently as possible."

In a similar vein, a Microsoft spokesperson downplayed the ongoing court proceedings.

“The decision disagreed with a lone technical finding by the Department of Defense about data storage under the evaluation of one sub-element of one price scenario”, company spinner Frank Shaw told the paper in a statement.

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