David Sirota, founder of The Lever news outlet, said he believes a reported $10 billion deal between the Biden administration and Amazon is hidden in secrecy.<\/p>\n
In late April, the news outlet Nextgov reported that the National Security Agency had re-awarded Amazon a contract for cloud-computing services.<\/p>\n
NSA recently awarded a contract to Amazon Web Services that delivers cloud computing services to support the agencys mission, an NSA official told Nextgov.<\/p>\n
Sirota expressed concerns with the reported contract.<\/p>\n
We dont actually know the details of this contract. Its shrouded in secrecy, theres a national security exemption for the details of the contract, but we know its a cloud computing contract, Sirota said while appearing on Hill.TVs Rising. <\/p>\n
There is a privacy question about what the NSA needs with a $10 billion build out of cloud computing. The mind can run wild about what thats all about in terms of surveillance and data collection, he added. <\/p>\n
Sirota said the size of the contract is huge.<\/p>\n
Theres very few details about what that contract is and I think that people need to understand how big the contract is. Federal contracts go out all the time in the millions of dollars even hundred of millions of dollars. A $10 billion federal contract, even at the federal government level, that is a huge contract, Sirota said. <\/p>\n
Sirota said the size of the contract can provide some answers to as why the Biden administration awarded it.<\/p>\n
Whatever they are actually building out with that, whatever the NSA is doing with it, you can rest assured that it is a big thing, he added. <\/p>\n
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