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April 28, 2022 02:06 pm
Original Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/04/28/146214/nsa-re-awards-10b-cloud-computing-contract-to-aws?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
NSA Re-awards $10B Cloud Computing Contract To AWS
The U.S. National Security Agency has re-awarded a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Amazon Web Services after it was forced to review the contract. From a report: Code-named WildandStormy, the contract was initially awarded to AWS in August. Because the deal concerns national security, the full details are not known but it's believed to be part of the NSAâ(TM)s attempt to modernize its primary classified data repository. The repository itself is thought to be a data fusion environment into which the agency aggregates much of the intelligence information it collects. The stumbling block to AWS being awarded the contract came in October when the Government Accountability Office called on the NSA to reevaluate the proposals submitted by AWS and Microsoft Corp. after Microsoft challenged the awarding of the contract to AWS. The GAO said at the time that it "found certain aspects of the agency's evaluation to be unreasonable and, in light thereof, recommended that NSA reevaluate the proposals consistent with the decision and make a new source selection determination." In December, it was revealed that the GAO had ruled that the NSA improperly assessed technical proposals from Microsoft "in a way that was inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation." The GAO also recommended that the NSA reevaluate the proposal and potentially make a new source selection. The NSA did reevaluate the proposals and decided to re-award the contract to AWS anyway.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/04/28/146214/nsa-re-awards-10b-cloud-computing-contract-to-aws?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
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