US Defense chief rejects Amazon's accusations of bias in JEDI contract

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"Conducted freely and fairly, without any type of outside influence".

US Defense chief rejects Amazon's accusations of bias in JEDI contract
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Friday rejected any suggestion of bias in a Pentagon decision to award Microsoft Corp an up to US$10 billion cloud computing contract, after Amazon.com Inc announced plans to challenge it. "I am confident it was conducted freely and fairly, without any type of ...

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