Amazon gave jobs to US Dept of Defence staff working on cloud bid, lawsuit says


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  • Wednesday, 08 May 2019

The lawsuit also contends that an unnamed former official connected with the Navy participated in the JEDI contracting process even after accepting a position with Amazon Web Services.

At least two Pentagon employees were offered jobs at Amazon.com Inc while working on the US Defence Department’s US$10bil (RM41.47bil) cloud contract, a lawsuit filed by Oracle Corp alleges. 

The amended complaint, made public on Tuesday, claims Deap Ubhi, a former employee at a high-level Defence Department technology unit, helped design the cloud contract in a way that was favourable to Amazon even after receiving “significant” job and bonus offers from the e-commerce giant. 

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