Read with your narrative framing glasses…(appears to be damage control)

Title: Modern Star Wars: JEDI, the Dark Side and the Fight for the Future of the Military

Commentary

Misinformation campaigns aren’t just limited to interfering with political elections. Now, it looks like someone’s meddling with the future of the military in the DOD’s biggest cloud contract ever.

In Star Wars, a JEDI was part of an ancient order of protectors that harnessed the power of the Force and battled against the dark side. In Washington, D.C. JEDI is not a group of Star Wars heroes destined to battle the dark side, but an acronym for the Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative, a $10 billion cloud contract that will help the Department of Defense (DOD) create an enterprise cloud capability. JEDI will help modernize the military’s technologies — including the use of artificial intelligence to better combat threats — and better support our troops who are deployed, all while significantly reducing costs.

Sounds like a great idea: technology for good that can help the U.S. keep pace with other nation states. Right? But as the DOD leads the charge towards a more modern, and effective future, powerful forces within the tech industry are pushing back in a fight, not for the ongoing prosperity of democracy, but rather, old antiquated processes and big profit in mind. Ah, U.S. capitalism at work.

https://medium.com/@furrier/yesterday-i-had-a-story-taken-down-on-forbes-for-a-post-about-jedi-dod-33675fd89a01