JEDI was launched in 2018

After staff protested its previous military contracts

Could this be the last JEDI news story I am forced to write?

Company says case should continue because the new JWWC contract continues DoD's ‘prejudice and misconduct’

Now will rebid the contract as a multi-cloud program that only Microsoft and Amazon can compete for

The US military appears trapped in an endless conflict with no clear winner

Difficult to see; always in motion is the future

Microsoft would lose out on the $10bn deal

Says that even if the procurement process had issues, Oracle was always going to lose

Even though AWS lost and is suing saying it was cheated

A long time ago in a procurement cycle far, far away, the US military tried to buy a cloud service

Hundreds of government data centers closed in a multi-year effort

Deals signed as cloud companies still fight it out over JEDI contract

The military can't keep delaying its cloud and Edge transformation, it claims

But the court case is still ongoing

Will Oracle give up?

Both sides are giving in to anger

120 days to come to a decision

No interference claim procurement managers

"This attempt to gerrymander the corrective action without fixing all of the serious flaws pointed out in our complaint raises significant questions"

Amid an ongoing Amazon case alleging Presidential interference

It appears plausible that the DoD "improperly evaluated” Microsoft’s bid

It's taking forever to support the forever war

While Microsoft criticizes AWS' “sensationalist and politicized rhetoric”

Demands testimony from the President and with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper

As it challenges Microsoft's contract victory

"The question is whether the President of the United States should be allowed to use the budget of DoD to pursue his own personal and political ends"

Claiming that Trump's hatred of Amazon scuppered chances of a fair contest