https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-defends-bid-for-us-military-contract/

Earlier this month, Google walked away from bidding on the same project because of employee objections to the company's prior involvement with Project Maven and the possibility that the project may not align with Google's principles for ethical use of artificial intelligence.

JEDI, aka the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, involves moving massive amounts of Pentagon internal data and processing power to a commercially operated cloud system. The contract could be worth as much as $10 billion.