[Fungi]

Unless I missed it, JEDI is not explained. An acronym needs to be spelled out in parenthesis before inserting into text. Sorry, but it is just standard practice that is no longer followed.

[SanchoP]

Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure

[MarvinStinson]

I had to cut the article.

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But now there’s something bigger at stake than privacy violations. Amazon expects a $10 billion cloud contract for the military. The $10 billion contract was a sweetheart deal for a politically influential company that seemed unstoppable until President Trump suddenly slammed the brakes on JEDI.

The deal had always been dubious and many critics had questioned how or why a single company could expect to have a monopoly on the JEDI cloud for the United States military. Amazon’s cloud business is huge, but the Capital One breach of 100 million credit card applications by a former Amazon employee highlighted the company’s security and workforce issues. Capital One kept its data in the cloud through AWS or Amazon Web Services and the hacker was a former AWS employee with specialized knowledge.

In the Obama era, Amazon had received a $600 million cloud contract that covers all 17 intelligence agencies. The secret deal was met with protests especially since Amazon’s wasn’t even the lowest bid.

Just as with JEDI, all the national security eggs were being put into one very fragile basket.

Amazon’s federal cloud contracts took off in the Obama era. Many of the biggest contracts are classified making it difficult to measure how much taxpayer money is being sucked into the Bezos business. But Amazon is winning contracts in the usual Washington D.C. way, by spending millions a year on lobbying.

[MarvinStinson]

Dubbed the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or Project JEDI, the program calls for a 10-year, $10 billion government contract to go to a single company that will serve as the exclusive cloud computing provider for the United States Department of Defense.

[olezip]

Unless I missed it, JEDI is not explained. An acronym needs to be spelled out in parenthesis before inserting into text. Sorry, but it is just standard practice that is no longer followed.

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JEDI: Justice, Economic Dignity, and Independence for Women:

JEDI: Joint Environment Driver for Interoperability (software)

JEDI: Joint Enterprise DoDIIS Infrastructure (USAF computer network system)

JEDI: Java Event-based Distributed Infrastructure:

JEDI: Joint Electronic Document Interchange project:

JEDI: Joint Electron Data Interchange:

JEDI: Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure