Amazon has asked a federal court for permission to get testimony from President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper as part of its ongoing protest over the Defense Department’s handling of a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract, according to a court filing unsealed Monday. From a report: The document also seeks permission to depose former Defense Secretary James Mattis and what…
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Amazon Asks Court To Halt Microsoft’s Work on Pentagon ‘War Cloud’
Amazon has asked a U.S. federal court to stop Microsoft from working with the Pentagon to implement a $10 billion cloud-computing contract, arguing that the project should stall until the courts work out whether Microsoft deserved to receive the lucrative deal. From a report: Amazon is suing the Department of Defense (DOD) over allegations that it allowed President Trump to exert…
Defense Innovation Board Unveils AI Ethics Principles For the Pentagon
The Defense Innovation Board, a panel of 16 prominent technologists advising the Pentagon, today voted to approve AI ethics principles for the Department of Defense. From a news article: The report includes 12 recommendations for how the U.S. military can apply ethics in the future for both combat and non-combat AI systems. The principles are broken into five main principles: responsible,…
Does The Military Need Agile Programming?
OneHundredAndTen writes: According to this Forbes article, the Pentagon is worried that many in the USA’s military nerve center claim to use Agile methods, when in fact, they aren’t. Those responsible for these things at the Pentagon have therefore come up with a Detecting Agile BS document, so people can tell when they are doing Agile vs. when they are doing…
Judge Dismisses Oracle Lawsuit Over $10 Billion Pentagon JEDI Cloud Contract
Last year, Oracle filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government complaining about the procurement process around the Pentagon’s $10 billion, decade-long JEDI cloud contract. “They claimed a potential conflict of interest on the part of a procurement team member (who was a former AWS employee),” reports TechCrunch. “Today, that case was dismissed in federal court.” From the report: In dismissing the…