| Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) is the name of a proposed cloud infrastructure network for the United States military. The JEDI Cloud will create a single data framework for the entire U.S. military and provide military personnel with access to enterprise-level cloud services comparable to those made available through commercial cloud services. Currently, the United States Department of Defense (DOD) maintains more than 500 public and private decentralized cloud infrastructures. The JEDI cloud will centralize management for those services and accommodate both classified and unclassified operations. The preliminary initiative for the JEDI cloud project began in March 2018 as a request for proposal (RFP) from the Department for Defense. The $10 billion contract was originally set to close in May 2018 and was later extended to October 2018. Initially, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Google were among the companies contending for the contract. Google later dropped out, citing employee complaints that the project did not fit the Google culture as the reason. The awarding of the contract subsequently came under dispute, causing additional delays. After reports that Amazon was expected to win the contract, IBM filed a complaint with the government accountability office and Oracle took the issue to court. Both companies alleged that the contract was unfairly written to favor Amazon, the leader in the commercial cloud-computing market. At the time, Amazon was the only contract finalist to be certified for classified cloud connections (Information Impact Level 6). Last month, to many people's surprise, it was announced that Microsoft was the winner of the massive cloud-computing contract. This week Amazon said it will protest the Pentagon decision, citing political influence and "unmistakable bias" in the Defense Department's award process. | 
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