Amazon wants to depose Trump over loss of military contract

Amazon wants President Donald Trump to submit to questioning over the tech company’s losing bid for a USD 10 billion military contract.

The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October. Amazon later sued, arguing that Trump’s interference and bias against the company harmed Amazon’s chances of winning.

Amazon was considered an early front-runner for a project that Pentagon officials have described as critical to advancing the US military’s technological advantage over adversaries.

The project, known as Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, will store and process vast amounts of classified data, allowing the US military to improve communications with soldiers on the battlefield and use artificial intelligence to speed up its war planning and fighting capabilities.