Pentagon beams down $10bn JEDI contract to Microsoft: Windows giant beats off Bezos
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/26/microsoft_wins_jedi_deal/
Microsoft has been awarded the $10bn decade-long US Department of Defense JEDI IT supply contract that will see the nation's military switch to the cloud.
The Redmond giant's Azure platform will play host to the US armed forces in an attempt to overhaul and streamline the Pentagon's IT infrastructure under a single umbrella – or single point of failure, to put it another way. Microsoft share price rose on the news in after-hours trading.