Amazon and Microsoft are battling for a $10B prize to build the U.S. military its first 'war cloud.' The project would store and process vast amounts of classified data, allowing the Pentagon to use artificial intelligence to speed up its war planning
1 / 3Pentagon Cloud WarFILE - In this June 19, 2017, file photo President Donald Trump, left, and Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, center, listen as Jeff Bezos, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, speaks during an American Technology Council roundtable in the State Dinning Room of the White House in Washington. Amazon and Microsoft are battling for a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first “war cloud.
"This is not your grandfather's internet," said Daniel Goure, vice president of the Lexington Institute, a defense-oriented think tank."You're talking about a cloud where you can go from the Pentagon literally to the soldier on the battlefield carrying classified information." Ives said an opportunity that was a"no brainer" for Amazon a year ago now seems just as likely to go to Microsoft, which has spent the past year burnishing its credentials to meet the government's security requirements.
In a court filing last month, Lt. Gen. Bradford Shwedo said further delays in the Oracle case will"hamper our critical efforts in AI" as the U.S. tries to maintain its advantage over adversaries who are"weaponizing their use of data." Shwedo said JEDI's computing capabilities could help the U.S. analyze data collected from surveillance aircraft, predict when equipment needs maintenance and speed up communications if fiber and satellite connections go down.
In an October blog post , IBM executive Sam Gordy wrote that a single-cloud approach went against industry trends and"would give bad actors just one target to focus on should they want to undermine the military's IT backbone." But Goure, whose think tank gets funding from Amazon but not from its cloud rivals Microsoft, Oracle or IBM, said the criticism is"coming from the also-rans." He says rivals like Oracle"missed the boat" in cloud technology and are trying to make up lost ground through legal maneuvers.
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