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Against expectations, the Department of Defense awarded a $10bn contract to Microsoft.
When the Pentagon first tendered the so-called Jedi contract in March 2018, the stakes couldn't have been higher.

The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project would give the military a cloud computing system that could handle 3.4 million demanding users, many of whose lives depended on it working correctly.

Rather than share the responsibility between several companies – as the likes of Oracle and IBM had keenly hoped – the Department of Defense decided that this was to be a "winner takes all" contract. One project, one provider, $10bn (£7.6bn).