Judge orders Defense Department to stop work on $10B cloud network

Published February 13, 2020 9:58pm ET



A federal judge has ordered the Defense Department to stop work on a federal cloud computing network after Amazon alleged President Trump illegally influenced the bidding process for the network’s contract.

The Defense Department awarded an estimated $10 billion contract to Microsoft in October to build the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure network. Amazon has sued the Trump administration, seeking testimony from Trump and a handful of current and former top defense officials, including Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

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