"One senator is still probing the Pentagon for answers on its long-delayed enterprise cloud contract, questioning if the technology requested two years ago is still relevant and asking how much the department has spent resolving related legal disputes.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter addressed the Secretary of Defense Mark Esper asking 14 questions about the the DoD’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract, a solicitation that has faced protests and court challenges that have continued to plague the department nearly a year after the contract was awarded to Microsoft over Amazon Web Services.

In the letter, Grassley, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, asked the department to lay out how much the DoD spent due to the “issues that arose from allegations of conflicts of interest or other issues that may have caused significant delays and award disputes.”

The senator also wants to know if the cloud computing technology the department asked for through JEDI, which officials have said is critical for the development of artificial intelligence, is still relevant."

https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/it-networks/2020/10/08/one-senator-is-still-asking-questions-about-the-pentagons-jedi-cloud/