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President Trump on concerns over the cloud-computing contract that is poised to go to either Amazon or Microsoft.
The battle between Microsoft and Amazon over the Pentagon cloud contract took another step on Monday.
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The Defense Department has no intention of splitting theJoint Enterprise Defense Infrastructurecontract between the two companies, according to the Breaking Defense newsletter.
Amazon is suing the Defense Departmentto overturn the award, potentially worth $10 billion to Microsoft.
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In an email, public affairs officer Lt. Col. Robert Carver did not rule out the possibility that the award would be overturned, only the possibility that it would be split.
There wasspeculationearlier in the month that a court motion signaled the possibility to divide the contract between Microsoft and Amazon.
The Defense Department had filed aformal motionasking that certain technical aspects of the award to Microsoft be reconsidered, because a judge ruled some questionable.
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The Pentagon awarded the contract to Microsoft Azure in October. Many thought the favorite was Amazon Web Services, which had created asimilar common cloudfor the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
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Amazon soon filed suit, arguingPresident Trumps unprecedented public criticismof their proposal had tilted the scales,which DoD denied.
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