The Pentagon has signalled a delay to a decision on whether to award a lucrative cloud-computing contract to Amazon or Microsoft.
The two companies are the last ones in the running to provide artificial intelligence-based analysis and host classified military secrets among other services over a 10-year period.
The deal could be worth more than $10bn (£8.2bn).
The delay follows concerns raised by President Donald Trump last month.
He told reporters: “I’m getting tremendous complaints about the contract with the Pentagon and with Amazon.”
The president added that Oracle and IBM – two companies previously knocked out of the bidding process – had been among those raising concerns.
And he said he intended to ask for the matter to be looked at “very closely” – despite the fact that the president’s former spokeswoman ... Read even more
