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The Department of Defense on Friday awarded a $10 billion technology contract to Microsoft over Amazon in a contest that was closely watched after President Trump ramped up his criticism of Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, and said he might intervene. The 10-year contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, known as JEDI, had set off a showdown among Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Google for the right to transform the military’s cloud computing systems.

The contract has an outsize importance because it is central to the Pentagon’s efforts to modernize its technology. Much of the military operates on 1980s and 1990s computer systems, and the Defense Department has spent billions of dollars trying to make them talk to one another. The decision was a surprise because Amazon had been considered the front-runner, in part because it had built cloud services for the Central Intelligence Agency.

But that was before Mr. Trump became publicly hostile to Mr. Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post. The president often refers to the newspaper as the “Amazon Washington Post” and has accused it of spreading “fake news.”

文本选自：The Washington Post(华盛顿邮报)

作者：Kate Conger, David E. Sanger and Scott Shane

原文标题：Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Contract, Thwarting Amazon

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美国国防部上周五将一份价值100亿美元的技术合同授予微软，打败了亚马逊，在特朗普总统加大了对亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝佐斯的批评并表示他可能会介入(这次商业竞争)之后，这场竞争受到了密切关注。这份名为JEDI的联合企业防御基础设施的合同为期十年，在亚马逊、微软、IBM、甲骨文和谷歌之间掀起了一场改造军方云计算系统的权利之争。

这份合约非常重要，因为它是五角大楼实现技术现代化努力的核心。目前大部分美军使用的都是上世纪80年代到90年代的开发的计算机系统，而国防部已经在各系统兼容的问题上花费了上亿美元。五角大楼的这一决定令美国舆论颇感意外，因为亚马逊一直处于“领跑”位置，其部分原因是它曾为美国中央情报局构建了云服务。

但亚马逊领跑的局势是在特朗普公开敌视贝佐斯之前，贝佐斯同时还是《华盛顿邮报》的老板。特朗普总统经常称这家报纸为“亚马逊华盛顿邮报”，并曾指责它传播“假新闻”。

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