If you reside in North or South America outside of the United States or Canada, you are entering into a contract with Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA. The laws of the State of Washington govern the interpretation of this Service Agreement and claims for breach of this Agreement, without regard to conflict of law principles. The laws of the country in which you live govern all other claims, including consumer protection, unfair competition, and tort claims. If you reside in the United States, you enter into a contract with Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA. The laws of the state in which you live govern the interpretation of this Service Agreement, claims for breach of this Agreement, and all other claims (including consumer protection, unfair competition, and tort claims), regardless of conflict of laws principles, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs all provisions related to arbitration. You and we irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts located in King County, Washington, for all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Service Agreement or the Support Services that will be heard by the courts (excluding arbitration and small claims courts). The NSA is pursuing a “hybrid compute initiative” to meet its processing and analysis needs while storing intelligence data (although it may not need as much storage as before). AWS already holds many cloud contracts for the government, but the JEDI process has exposed Microsoft as a formidable competitor. Last year, the CIA split its Commercial Cloud Enterprise contract between five companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle and IBM.
Last year, a Microsoft blog post said it was seeking U.S. government accreditation for its Top Secret Azure Government regions to “meet the demand for more agility in the classified space.” “The security of the United States is more important than any single treaty, and we know Microsoft will do well if the nation is doing well,” Microsoft executive Toni Townes-Whitley wrote in a blog post Tuesday, adding, “If a company can delay critical technology upgrades for those defending our nation for years, the protest process must be reformed.” WildandStormy is a separate effort from the intelligence community`s C2E contract. Last November, the CIA awarded the tens of billions of dollars in the contract to five companies: AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM. These companies will compete for specific tasks based on the needs of the intelligence community. The NSA awarded the contract worth up to $10 billion to AWS in July to support the agency`s classified and unclassified cloud services. Microsoft protested against the award of the contract on July 21, adding to its legal reasoning in a complementary protest on September 2. After years of fighting over the Defense Department`s $10 billion JEDI cloud service contract, Microsoft and Amazon are fighting for another government deal. Now it`s the National Security Agency that offers a contract that could pay up to $10 billion if it switches from local servers to a commercial provider. However, as Washington Technology first reported, Amazon Web Services won the $10 billion contest this time — and it`s Microsoft`s turn to protest the Government Accountability Office.
Hamish Hume: You never know. I mean, JEDI now has another major update, a month before this award went to Amazon in July of this year, a few months ago, the DOJ announced that it was removing and cancelling the JEDI contract, and Amazon obviously welcomed this news. It had been a challenge. Microsoft, I would say, is issuing a notification that they have accepted and understood it. But they were obviously not happy with it. JEDI was therefore scrapped and an NSA award was awarded the following month, and that award is now being contested. The agency said it plans to strike a contract with multiple companies instead of a win-win approach with JEDI, which has long been criticized by lawmakers and experts. The Pentagon said it would seek bids for the new multi-cloud contract from Amazon and Microsoft, as both are currently the only companies capable of meeting the military`s requirements. If you reside in Europe, the Middle East or Africa, you enter into a contract with Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, The Atrium Building, Block B, Carmanhall Road, Sandyford Industrial Estate, Dublin 18, Ireland (registered with the Companies Registry Office in Ireland under number 256796, VAT number: IE 8256796 U, with a registered address of 70 Sir John Rogerson`s Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland) and the laws of Ireland govern the interpretation of this Service Agreement and claims for breach of this Agreement, without regard to conflict of laws principles. The laws of the country in which you live govern all other claims, including consumer protection, unfair competition, and tort claims.
You and we irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts for any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Service Agreement or the Support Services. When Amazon pushed for a review of the JEDI Treaty process, it cited “unmistakable mistakes and prejudices” when former President Donald Trump reportedly intervened and showed hostility to then-CEO Jeff Bezos. Eventually, the DoD decided that the program`s design no longer met its needs and rejected the entire plan to pursue a multi-vendor solution called Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability. Will WildandStormy suffer a similar fate? A step towards a response will come in the coming months, as the GAO`s decision is expected by October 29. The ministry will abandon JEDI`s win-win approach and award at least two contracts directly to the two largest U.S. cloud computing companies: Microsoft and Amazon. The Department of Defense will focus on a new enterprise cloud contract after canceling its disputed $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft Corp. In 2020, when millions of Pentagon employees and contractors were forced to work remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic, officials turned to Microsoft for cloud-based video conferencing and collaboration software.
In March 2021, the U.S. military offered Microsoft a $22 billion contract extension to produce thousands of its Hololens devices for the U.S. military. If you reside in the Republic of Korea, you have a contract with Microsoft Korea, Inc., 12th FL. Tower A, The K-Twin Towers, 50, Jongno 1 gil, Jongno-Gu, Seoul 110-150, Korea. This Service Agreement is governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea. You and we irrevocably agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the Seoul District Court for all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Service Agreement or the Support Services. Microsoft will only retain JEDI`s minimum contractual guarantee of $1 million, a fraction of the potential value of the $10 billion contract over 10 years.
Yet the Redmond, Washington-based software giant`s first JEDI victory positioned itself in a position to compete with Amazon. It`s clear that the DoD trusts Microsoft and our technology, and we`re confident that we`ll continue to succeed as the DoD selects partners for new work. Your decision today does not change the fact that, after careful scrutiny by professional procurement staff, the Department of Defense has decided not once, but twice, that Microsoft and our technology best meet their needs. This does not change the defence ministry`s inspector general`s conclusion that there was no evidence of interference in the procurement process. And that doesn`t change the fact that the Department of Defense and other federal agencies — in fact, large companies around the world — choose Microsoft to regularly meet their cloud computing and digital transformation needs. While we weren`t able to work directly with the DoD at JEDI during the court protest, the investments we continued to make in support of the contractual requirements ensure that Microsoft will be an even stronger competitor for future contracts. Microsoft now has the widest range of cloud innovations for all U.S. government data classifications, from the cloud to tactical edge to space. The Defense Department said Tuesday that the JEDI contract — short for Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure — no longer meets its needs “due to changing requirements, increased cloud convergence, and industry advances.” Hamish Hume: Well, it`s hard to say, and it`s very strange. It`s said to be a $10 billion prize, which is the same number they used for JEDI. .